Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: The ankle-brachial index (ABI) shows the existence of peripheral arterial disease and is also related to cardiovascular mortality in diabetic patients, even in those with coronary artery disease at an early stage. Normal levels are considered to be an ABI of 0.9 – 1.3; ABI thresholds of less than 0.9 and more than 1.3 are highly suspicious for PAD and high CV risk in diabetic patients. In this study, we planned to investigate the ankle-brachial index values in diabet...

Aim: We aimed to evaluate wrist and ankle measurements in patients with and without diabetes-related macrovascular disease.Material and method: 151 consecutive patients with type 2 diabetes who came to our diabetic outpatient clinic were included. We have divided the patients into two groups. Group 1 (patients with diabetes related macrovascular complications) and group 2 (patients without diabetes related macrovascular complications). Group 1 (n</em...