Diabetes mellitus is associated with a greater risk of developing atherosclerosis and its
complications: stroke, myocardial infarction, and peripheral vascular disease. In patients
with diabetes, atherosclerosis represents a complex multifactorial disease with increased
lesion progression and severity compared to the nondiabetic population. Several risk factors
have been proposed to explain the increased risk of cardiovascular disease with diabetes.
They include: hyperglycae-mia, dyslipidemia, accelerated formation of advanced glycation …