Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: In 2005, experts from the IDF assigned the risk of developing coronary heart disease in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) at age of 30 and over or patients with DM1 with kidney damage equal to the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The need for a non-invasive preclinical marker for identifying patients with the increased risk of cardiovascular disease is obvious. The assessment of arterial stiffness can play a role of such marker. The aim o...