Endocrine Abstracts

Sixty-six patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity and no known history of cardiovascular disease were recruited to a lifestyle-intervention study. The aims of this study were to quantify the presence of silent and symptomatic ischaemia using a Bruce protocol treadmill-test, and to identify factors associated with a positive stress-test in these patients. Ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee.54/66 patients had blood pressure (BP) g...