Walking, house chores may help lower diabetes, heart disease death risk

• About 90% of Americans meet the criteria from at least stage 1 of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome.
• CKM is a recently defined condition that includes heart disease, kidney disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.
• A new study found that light physical activity, such as walking, may help lower a person’s mortality risk for people with stages 2, 3, or 4 of the disease.

Researchers estimate that about 90% of Americans have at least stage 1 of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome — a recently defined condition that includes heart disease, kidney disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.

“CKM syndrome is a new framework (published in 2023) endorsed by major organizations like the American Heart Association,” Joseph Sartini, BSE, a PhD candidate in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland, told Medical News Today. “Doctors will be using this new approach when they’re managing heart disease risk in patients.”

Sartini is the lead author of a new study recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which found that light physical activity, such as walking, may help lower a person’s mortality risk for people with stages 2, 3, or 4 of the disease.