Screening and treatment intervention for insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia hoping to prevent heart failure or slow its worsening.
Heart failure (HF) is the common endpoint of most heart diseases, affecting between 1 and 3% of the adult population worldwide, but increases to approximately 10% in adults over 70 years of age, exceeding 20% in those over 80-85 years of age [1, 2].
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I greatly agree with dr Swami that there is a strong link between type 2 diabetes and Heart failure. However, I think that is insulin resistance with associated hyperinsulinemia which is the principal cause of type 2 diabetes and precedes it by many years and is associated with it for many years (at least until the Langerhans cells in the pancreas are exhausted) that is associated with Heart failure by causing Heart damage over the years. When diabetes develops, It finds fertile ground to worsen damage that is al ready largely presente. Therefore, I strongly believe that should be necessary to preventively intervene on insulin resistance and associated hyperinsulinemia.