Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The presence and type of atherosclerotic plaque is associated with future cardiovascular events (CVE). We previously described that increased frequency of plaques is associated with specific features in type 1 diabetes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D).Methods: A cross-sectional study of 174 subjects with carotid atherosclerotic pla...

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM). Traditional cardiovascular risk factors fail to fully account for the increase in cardiovascular risk in these patients. The NEFRONA study is a large, multicentre, prospective, observational study that evaluated atheromatous disease (AD) in the carotid and femoral territories in a large cohort of Spanish CKD ...

Background and aims: There are growing evidence supporting the deleterious effect of type 2 diabetes (T2D) on respiratory function and sleep breathing disorders. However, there is no information about the characteristics of lung function in the prediabetes stage.Methods: We assessed pulmonary function in 3,455 non-diabetic subjects, aged between 45 and 70 years, without vascular disease nor chronic pulmonary obstructive disease from the cross-sectional s...