Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Chronic Diabetes

Abstract

Diabetes is one of several risk factors for ischemic heart disease and is a major killer.1–3This complex disease affected around 171 million people all over the world in 2000 and is estimated to affect 366 million people by 2030. Of these, about 13 million cases have been diagnosed with diabetes in the US, and another 5.2 million people are unaware that they have the disease.