Although diabetes does confer an increased risk of CV events, it is not automatically
equivalent to having experienced myocardial infarction (MI), and thus does not always …

Aims To determine whether patients with diabetes without prior myocardial infarction (MI)
have the same risk of total coronary heart disease (CHD) events as non‐diabetic patients …

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a cardiovascular disease.[1] It may be inappropriate to make such
statement because traditionally, diabetes is a disease in the realm of internal medicine …

The concept of diabetes as a coronary heart risk (CHD) equivalent postulates that patients
with diabetes who do not yet have CHD are at an equally high cardiovascular risk as non …

There have been no primary prevention studies of coronary disease specifically in patients
with diabetes. Although diet, weight loss, exercise, smoking cessation, and aggressive …

Patients with diabetes are at more risk for developing cardiovascular disease than are
patients without diabetes. Both men and women across all age groups with diabetes are at …

Diabetes remains one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and
atherosclerotic vascular diseases constitute the most important group of complications …

CHAPTER 5 Coronary heart disease than in those without diabetes. Women with diabetes
are particularly prone to cardiovascular disease. The increased cardiovascular risk …

Diabetes increases the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) 2-to 3-fold, and when patients
with diabetes develop overt CHD, the prognosis is worse than it is for patients without …

It has been known for some time that diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk of
cardiovascular disease. The term coronary heart disease (CHD) risk equivalence has …