At the American Diabetes Association's 78th Annual Scientific Sessions, Peter Toth, MD, the director of preventive cardiology at the CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Illinois, sat with MD Mag to discuss recent study results he presented at the meeting. The study, conducted in patients with either diabetes, ASCVD, or both, revealed for the first time that triglycerides can be utilized as an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk. Additionally, in a cost-analysis, the findings showed that having hypertriglyceridemia can increase monthly health care costs by 14%, and increased hospitalization length by 17%. Meanwhile, having diabetes showed a monthly health care cost increase of 43%, and a hospitalization cost increase of 45%.

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