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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on August 7, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn368
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Not all diabetics are created equal (in cardiovascular risk)

Matthew J. Budoff*

Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, 1124 W. Carson Street, RB2 Torrance, CA 90502, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: (310) 222 4107, Fax: (310) 787 0448, E-mail: mbudoff@labiomed.org

This editorial refers to ‘Coronary calcium measurement improves prediction of cardiovascular events in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes: the PREDICT study,’ by R.S. Elkeles et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn279

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Current guidelines continue to recommend all persons with diabetes be considered at high risk and treated accordingly. For example, National Cholesterol Education Panel Guidelines state ‘Persons with type 2 diabetes should be managed as a coronary heart disease (CHD) risk equivalent. Treatment for low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol should follow Adult Treatment Panel III recommendations for persons with established CHD.’1 This remains an important tenet, as up to 80% of persons with diabetes will suffer a cardiovascular event. This has led some to conclude that further risk stratification in persons with diabetes is neither warranted nor useful.

However, persons with diabetes are not all . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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