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New York: Children born with heart disease have an increased risk of developing Type-2 diabetes after age 30, says a new study.
The
risk appears even higher for those born with a cyanotic congenital
heart disease (CHD) condition -- one in which patients had a bluish
colouration of the skin due to low oxygen content in tissues near the
surface of the skin.
“Given
the cardiovascular health burden of Type-2 diabetes, attention to its
development in CHD survivors is warranted,” said lead author of
the study Nicolas Madsen, cardiologist at Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center in the US.
“Unfortunately,
promoting cardiovascular health isn’t always prioritised with the
ageing CHD population,” Madsen noted. The findings were
published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The
study was conducted among 5,149 patients in Denmark who were born
between 1963 and 1980 and were alive at age 30.
The
most common diagnoses were atrial or ventricular septal defects.
These are conditions that allow blood to travel inappropriately
between the upper or lower chambers of the heart.
The
incidence of diabetes by age 45 was 3.9 per cent for those without
cyanotic conditions and eight percent for those who were cyanotic.
This
compares to a Type-2 diabetes rate of only 2.8 percent in the general
Danish population by the age of 45.
The
researchers believe that the increasing risk of Type-2 diabetes for
those with CHD may be due to traditional risk factors, such as
obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, which have been studied in the
ageing CHD population.
--IANS