Cardiometabolic Diseases and Related Complications: Current Status and Future Perspective

摘要

In the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity not only in industrialized nations but also in developing nations with emerging economies [1, 2]. With the escalation of obesity, diabetes and hypertension, there has been a parallel increase in the incidence and prevalence of cardiometabolic complications [3, 4]. Cardiometabolic complications are multifactorial diseases, and a wide spectrum of different factors including changes in living environments, diets, lifestyles, genetic, and epigenetic factors [1, 2] may be involved. Although significant strides have been made in elucidating the multifaceted mechanisms associated with many cardiometabolic complications [1, 2], much still has to be done. For example studies which unveil novel mechanisms implicated in cardiometabolic diseases may open new therapeutic horizons.