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Genesis Growth And Future of

Cardiodiabetic Medicine

Prof. Dr. S. Arulrhaj,MD,FRCP(G)
Chairman, Commonwealth Medical Association Trust, UK &
Commonwealth Medical eVarsity
Founder & Past Chairman, Commonwealth Health Professions Alliance, UK
Past President, Commonwealth Medical Association, UK
Past National President, IMA, NewDelhi
Chief Patron, IMACGP – INDIA & IMA eVarsity
Vice President, Association of Physicians of India
Formerly Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Dr.MGR Medical University, Chennai

Co-Author

Dr.Aarathy Kannan,MD,Dip.Diab
Consultant Physician & Diabetologist, Sundaram Arulrhaj Hospiatls,Tuticorin

Dr.Bhuvaneshwar, Dr.Kiran Palsania
Postgraduate Students, Sundaram Arulrhaj Hospiatls,Tuticorin

Cardio Diabetes Medicine patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Cardio-Diabetology is a multi-disciplinary may be obese, ‘cardiodiabesity’ was suggested
subspeciality / Interdisciplinary Speciality and as an appropriate catch-all term. Further, the
encompasses diabetologists, non – invasive high risk for renal complications in patients with
cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, cardio- convergent diabetes and cardiovascular disease led
thoracic surgeons, pathologists and general to the suggestion of ‘cardiorenaldiabetes’ as another
physicians in its spectra. An interplay of specialists descriptor.
of above fields is mandatory for a comprehensive “The term ‘cardiodiabetes’ is a useful reminder for
approach towards management of cardiac clinicians to assess multiple risk factors’
complications of diabetes. Besides treatment,
special emphasis should also be laid on prevention The fusion of the prefix cardio with the suffix diabetes:
/ modulation of complications and this indeed is -Reminds diabetologists to assess blood pressure,
possible in the present scenario. lipids, weight and glucose management.
-Prompts cardiologists to consider diabetes-related
Is the term cardiodiabetes really risk factors in patient assessment and management
meaningful?
-The combination of cardio with diabetes tells patients
A number of terms are used to describe the more about their condition
convergence of cardiovascular disease and type 2
diabetes in a patient.
Cardiodiabetes what’s in a name?
The term cardiodiabetes was preferred by the Group ‘Physicians must communicate and collaborate
over the word ‘cardiobetes’, which was considered to combine the best of specialist experience with
too truncated a term. In recognition that many primary care expertise’

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