Q&A: ‘Normal’ blood glucose may still increase risk for heart disease

Slightly elevated blood glucose within a range of what is generally considered “normal” may be associated with increased risk for heart disease, researchers reported.Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA, director of the Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, co-director of the UCLA Preventive Cardiology Program, co-chief of the division of cardiology at UCLA and Eliot Corday Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, and Moein Ebrahimi, MD, of the School of Medicine at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, recently published an editorial in theRead More