Correlación entre niveles séricos de PCR ultrasensible y factores de riesgo cardiovasculares en pacientes adultos con Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2, atendidos en el servicio de consulta externa de ndocrinología del Hospital General de las Fuerzas Armadas, ent

kground: The inflammatory process plays an important role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and considering in the pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes the insulin resistance state as pro-inflammatory, hs-CRP appears as one of the most studied markers to measure the inflammatory burn. The study`s objective is to assess the degree of correlation between the levels hs-CRP and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. Type of study: observational, analytical, cross-sectional, correlation study to determine the degree of relationship between the variables. Place and subjects: patients between ages of 20 to 80 years, with diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes, who came to Endocrinology consult of Military Hospital, period May and July of 2012. Main Outcome Measures: correlation- ship between serum levels of hs-CRP and cardiovascular risk factors. Results: We found a moderate significant positive correlation between hs-CRP with glycated hemoglobin (r. 0.55, p 0,01), a weak correlation with, body mass index (r. 0,27, p 0,05) and waist circumference in women (r. 0,37, p 0,01 ) and men (r. 0,25, p 0,05 )There was a very weak but significant positive correlation between hs-PCR with time of diagnosis, (r. 0.19, p 0,05), fibrinogen(r. 0.18, p 0,01)), levels of blood pressure (r. 0.17, p 0,05). A nonsignificant weak negative correlation with female gender (r. -0.153, p 0,057) and smoking (r. 0.11, p 0, 05) There was no correlation between hs-CRP with age, hypertension, lipid profile and Framingham score. Conclusions: We observed a statistically significant positive correlation between hs-CRP levels and glycated hemoglobin, Body Mass Index, waist circumference, fibrinogen levels, time of diagnosis and blood pressure.