Endocrine Abstracts

Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is associated with a 2-4 fold increased risk of mortality largely due to cardiovascular disease.Therefore patients with newly diagnosed (T2DM) are at increased cardiovascular risk and may already have cardiovascular complications. Estimating the risk of future events would be important towards potential preventative measures. Ethics Committee Approval was obtained to estimate the risk of vascular complications in a cohort of newly ...