DM2 definition
Examples of DM2 in a sentence
Patients with DM2 have a high-risk of cardiovascular events and endothelial dysfunction can be viewed as an early sign of atherosclerosis.
CIMT, arterial stiffness and variably FMD are abnormal long before the onset of DM2.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most important cause of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) 1.
In this study, we observed that MS load, the presence of the individual defining criteria, and chronic low-grade inflammation independently contributed to vascular phenotype in this DM2 population.
In conclusion, the present study showed no effect of two year statin therapy on CRP in patients with DM2 without manifest CVD.
In DM2 without coronary artery disease, levels of CRP are higher than in non-diabetic controls13.
CRP levels independently predict future cardiovascular events in DM2 in some studies14,15.
No long-term, blinded, placebo-controlled trials on the effect of statin therapy on endothelial function in DM2 have been reported.
Importantly, in the Hoorn study16, the association of CRP with future CVD events in DM2 was not independent of classical risk factors.
Balletshofer et al23 found no effect of 12 weeks cerivastatin 0.2 mg and 0.8 mg on CRP in DM2; this study however included only 20 patients per group because the study was terminated after the withdrawal of cerivastatin.