Findeisen, Hannes
[Author];
Weckbach, Sabine
[Author];
Stark, Renee Gertrud
[Author];
Reiser, Maximilian
[Author];
Schönberg, Stefan
[Author];
Parhofer, Klaus G.
[Author]
Metabolic syndrome predicts vascular changes in whole body magnetic resonance imaging in patients with long standing diabetes mellitus
Description:
Although diabetic patients have an increased rate of cardio-vascular events, there is considerable heterogeneity with respect to cardiovascular risk, requiring new approaches to individual cardiovascular risk factor assessment. In this study we used whole body-MR-angiography (WB-MRA) to assess the degree of atherosclerosis in patients with long-standing diabetes and to determine the association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and atherosclerotic burden.