Progression of coronary atherosclerotic plaque burden and relationship with adverse cardiovascular event in asymptomatic diabetic patients

Progression of coronary atherosclerotic plaque burden and relationship with adverse cardiovascular event in asymptomatic diabetic patients

Abstract Background The heterogeneity of risk in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) is acknowledged in new guidelines promulgating different treatment recommendations for diabetics at low cardiac risk. We performed a retrospective longitudinal follow-up study to evaluate coronary plaque progressio...

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Main Authors: Junjie Yang, Guanhua Dou, Christian Tesche, Carlo N. De Cecco, Brian E. Jacobs, U. Joseph Schoepf, Yundai Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Subjects:
Coronary artery disease
Type 2 diabetes
Coronary computed tomography angiography
Plaque progression
Outcome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12872-019-1016-4

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