Heart and Vascular Disease is one of the most unfavourable manifestations of Type 2 Diabetes especially, of Type 1 as well. There is a 2 to 3-fold times greater risk of cardiovascular events in diabetics when compared to non-diabetics. It is also necessary to point out that 75% of diabetics die of some kind of cardiovascular event.
In this part of our website we provide information on the underlying cause of ischemic disease – atherosclerosis, and coronary and vascular diseases themselves.