Cardiovascular risk

Prediabetes remission — a return to normal blood sugar levels — has been making headlines with the figure «−58%»: supposedly, this is how much the risk of cardiovascular death falls. It sounds like a reward for a healthy lifestyle. But if you look at the original source, the story is more nuanced and interesting. Yes, remission from prediabetes is indeed linked to a sharp reduction in cardiac events. However, those same studies had previously revealed a paradox: lifestyle itself is key to heart health…