<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Patients recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus need to go to a complex evaluation regarding not only glycaemia and HbA1C, but also blood pressure values, lipid metabolism, kidney function, medical history and lifestyle choices. Cardiovascular risk assessment can reveal which patients fall into moderate and high categories of risk, where regular follow-up and intensive therapy addressing all the risk factors must be strictly performed. We selected a group made of 385 diabetes mellitus type II patients, a representative for the whole population of newly diagnosed diabetic patients from our county in 2017. We determined their anthropometric indicators, their biochemical parameters, their lifestyle choices and we assessed their coronary heart disease risk at 10 years using UKPDS risk engine.</p></abstract>

Patients recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus need to go to a complex evaluation regarding not only glycaemia and HbA1C, but also blood pressure values, lipid metabolism, kidney function, medical history and lifestyle choices. Cardiovascular risk assessment can reveal which patients fall into moderate and high categories of risk, where regular follow-up and intensive therapy addressing all the risk factors must be strictly performed. We selected a group made of 385 diabetes mellitus type II patients, a representative for the whole population of newly diagnosed diabetic patients from our county in 2017. We determined their anthropometric indicators, their biochemical parameters, their lifestyle choices and we assessed their coronary heart disease risk at 10 years using UKPDS risk engine.

Cross - Sectional Study on a Population of Diabetes Mellitus Newly Diagnosed Patients. Relative Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Morbidity Using UKPDS Risk Engine

Clinical County Emergency Hospital of Oradea

Internal Medicine

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Patients recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus need to go to a complex evaluation regarding not only glycaemia and HbA1C, but also blood pressure values,...

Cross - Sectional Study on a Population of Diabetes Mellitus Newly Diagnosed Patients. Relative Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Morbidity Using UKPDS Risk Engine

Published Online: Mar 24, 2018

Page range: 7 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/inmed-2018-0001

Keywords
diabetes type II, coronary heart disease prediction in diabetic patients

© 2018 Vesa Cosmin Mihai et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Cross - Sectional Study on a Population of Diabetes Mellitus Newly Diagnosed Patients. Relative Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Morbidity Using UKPDS Risk Engine

Published Online: Mar 24, 2018

Page range: 7 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/inmed-2018-0001

Keywordsdiabetes type II, coronary heart disease prediction in diabetic patients

© 2018 Vesa Cosmin Mihai et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
diabetes type II, coronary heart disease prediction in diabetic patients