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References Diabetes is a common disease with a rapidly increasing prevalence. Diabetic patients are at markedly increased risk for development of coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure and, further, when they develop these diseases, they have worse outcomes including higher mortality. This mandates an aggressive approach to reducing cardiovascular risk in all diabetic patients. Good evidence...
In the longitudinal Young Finns study, cardiovascular risk factors were first assessed in 1980 in 3,596 children aged 3–18 years. The latest follow-up examinations were performed in 2001 and 2007, when risk factors and early markers of atherosclerosis in carotid and brachial arteries were examined among 2,653 subjects from the original cohorts, now aged 24–45 years. The results show that an individual’s...
The mechanisms controlling heart rate and blood pressure (BP) are quite complex. To some extent these hemodynamic variables are interrelated but observations from the Bogalusa Heart Study suggest different mechanisms are involved in their control and are influenced by ethnicity and gender. Heart rate seems to have a greater central autonomic control, being slower in black children than in white children,...
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