Vascular or chronological age: which is the better marker to estimate the cardiovascular risk in patients with type 1 diabetes?

Carlos Roberto Moraes de Andrade,Eliete Leão Clemente Silva,Maria de Fátima Bevilaqua da Matta,Marcia Bueno Castier,Maria Luiza Garcia Rosa,Marilia Brito Gomes

Vascular or chronological age: which is the better marker to estimate the cardiovascular risk in patients with type 1 diabetes?

2016

Carlos Roberto Moraes de Andrade
Eliete Leão Clemente Silva
Maria de Fátima Bevilaqua da Matta
Marcia Bueno Castier
Maria Luiza Garcia Rosa
Marilia Brito Gomes

Aims To evaluate whether using vascular age (VA) instead of chronological age (CA) in the Framingham score would enhance the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk estimation in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

Keywords:

Intima-media thickness
Diabetes mellitus
Endocrinology
Framingham Risk Score
Type 1 diabetes
Disease
Medicine
Cardiology
Internal medicine
carotid arteries
in patient
chronological age

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