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Diabetes Care 28:496, 2005
© 2005 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.

Letters: Observations

Peripheral Arterial Compliance Differs Between Races

Comparison among Asian, Afro-Caribbeans, and white Caucasians with type 2 diabetes

Elisabete S. Pinto, BSC, PHD1, Raphaela Mensah, BSC, MBBS1, Karim Meeran, BSC, MD, FRCP1, James D. Cameron, MENGSC, MD2, Nirupa Murugaesu, MBBS1, Christopher J. Bulpitt, MD, FRCP1 and Chakravarthi Rajkumar, MD, PHD, FRCP1

1 Section of Care of the Elderly, Division of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, U.K
2 Department of Vascular Sciences, Dandenong Hospital, Southern Health Network and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Address correspondence to Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Imperial College, Section of Care of Elderly, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, U.K. E-mail: c.rajkumar@imperial.ac.uk

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Patients with type 2 diabetes have two to three times the risk of dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease than their nondiabetic counterparts (1). Many studies have shown that arterial compliance is reduced in type 2 diabetes and that arterial stiffness increases with deteriorating glucose tolerance status, even before the onset of type 2 diabetes (2–4). In a previous brief report, we studied Afro-Caribbean and white Caucasian subjects with diabetes and found a decrease in peripheral arterial compliance in the Afro-Caribbean subjects (5). We also reported an accelerated rate of aging in the elastic arteries of diabetic patients reaching a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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