Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2010
Abstract
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is closely associated with cardiovascular (CV) diseases. These are the main cause of death in patients not only with type 2 but also type 1 diabetes.
Apart from the traditional risk factors such as arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia and obesity, hyperglycaemia is an independent risk factor for the development of ischemic heart disease. Long-term hyperglycaemia leads to vascular damage through several mechanism.....
Treatment of hypeglycaemia is one of the set of neasures that may contribute to CV risk reduction in diabetic patients.