A new chronic health condition defined late last year, termed cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, reportedly impacts a shocking percentage of the American public.
Via American Heart Association, October 2023 (emphasis added):
Health experts are redefining cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, prevention and management, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory published today in the Association’s flagship journal Circulation.
Various aspects of cardiovascular disease that overlap with kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity support the new approach. For the first time, the American Heart Association defines the overlap in these conditions as cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome. People who have or are at risk for cardiovascular disease may have CKM syndrome…
According to the American Heart Association’s 2023 Statistical Update, 1 in 3 U.S. adults have three or more risk factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders and/or kidney disease. CKM affects nearly every major organ in the body, including the heart, brain, kidney and liver. However, the biggest impact is on the cardiovascular system, affecting blood vessels and heart muscle function, the rate of fatty buildup in arteries, electrical impulses in the heart and more.
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Apparently, according to work published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, CKM affects around nine out of 10 Americans.
Via Healthline (emphasis added):
A new study has revealed that roughly 90% of Americans may have cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome.
The risks are greatest among older adults, men, and Black individuals, the report, which was published in JAMA Wednesday, found.
The American Heart Association (AHA) introduced a new staging system in 2023 — called CKM syndrome — to better treat and manage cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic diseases, since they are deeply connected and often require a multidisciplinary approach.
CKM syndrome is a systemic disorder that has links between heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and obesity.
Via Journal of the American Medical Association (emphasis added):
Almost 90% of US adults met criteria for CKM syndrome (stage 1 or higher) and 15% met criteria for advanced stages, neither of which improved between 2011 and 2020. The lack of progress, in part, may reflect concomitant improvement and worsening of different risk factors over time. Substantial between-subgroup differences in advanced stages were observed, with older age, men, and Black adults at increased risk.
So, CKM, newly defined, affects potentially 90% of Americans and it affects multiple organs — data points which, taken together, would seem to indicate it came on relatively hard and fast in the grand arc of human history, probably due to one or more environmental factors.
The question begs itself: what environmental or lifestyle factor(s) were introduced in recent decades (or even the past few years) and distributed across virtually the entire population?
These are the kinds of questions that, asked in public, get you demonetized by Google.
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Continuing via Healthline:
The vast majority of the population has risk factors that put them at risk for CKM syndrome: 73% live with overweight or obesity, half of adults have high blood pressure, over 38 million American adults have diabetes, and 1 in 3 adults have prediabetes.
These are devastating statistics that ought to bring deep shame — and professional consequences — upon the medical “experts” who have presided over the most precipitous decline in human health in a single population in world history outside of, perhaps, legitimately deadly pandemics like the bubonic plague.
If an airline pilot botched the landing 90% of the time, he wouldn’t be a pilot for very long. Yet the same standard apparently doesn’t apply to similar matters of life and death in the medical profession.
The United States is far and away the most medicated nation on Earth. Americans spend more, by far, per capita on healthcare than any other nation on Earth.
By any measure, the healthcare professional is a miserable failure. But, instead of accountability, all we seem to get is more profitable pharmaceutical patents that cause further problems and windfall profits for the industry and the captured regulators in government and professional associations like the AMA that work for it.
Sicker patients à more drugs, no deeper reflection à sicker patients à more drugs, no deeper reflection.
Rinse, wash, and repeat.
