(4/12, Neale) reports, "Patients with metabolic syndrome and diabetes
are more likely to develop detectable levels of coronary artery calcium
and to have greater progression of calcification compared with patients
without those conditions," according to a study
published in the April issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
"Compared with individuals with neither condition, those with
either or both of the conditions had a significantly greater risk of
developing calcification in between cardiac CT scans (RRs 1.6 to 2.0),"
researchers found. What's more, "among those with detectable levels of
calcium at baseline, progression was significantly greater in patients
with either or both of the conditions (P<0.01 for all comparisons)."
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