Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Cardiovascular Diseases-Risk Assessment

BACKGROUND: Uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is widely recognized as a significant risk factor for the emergence of cardiovascular events. Early risk assessment, especially for coronary artery disease, is crucial to starting therapeutic strategies to lower cardiovascular risk. OBJECTIVE: To assess cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS: 64 patients were divided into groups according to age, gender, disease duration, glucoregulation, and applied treatment. The SCORE table was used to quantify cardiovascular risk. RESULTS: Our research showed that cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes mellitus increases with age (rho = 0.458; p = 0.0001; p <0.05) and is higher in men (rho = -0.417; p <0,0001). It has been found that patients with a longer duration of diabetes mellitus have a higher cardiovascular risk (rho = 0.266; p = 0.032). Patients with better glucoregulation had a slightly lower cardiovascular risk, but correlation was statistically insignificant. No statistically significant correlation was observed between applied therapy and cardiovascular risk. CONCLUSION: Good control and treatment of T2DM is of crucial importance for reducing cardiovascular risk.