Almost 90 percent of US adults have at least one risk factor for a newly defined medical condition – but just as many, nine in 10, have never heard of it before. The American Heart Association hopes to change that by raising awareness of the condition, called cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“We want people to know that it’s really common to have heart, kidney and metabolic risk factors at the same time,” said Dr Eduardo Sanchez, chief medical officer for prevention at the American Heart Association, in a statement following a recent survey.

Of the respondents, only 12 percent had heard of CKM syndrome prior, but 72 percent said they were interested to learn more.

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