Vascular Involvement in Diabetes Clinical Experimental and Beyond

Since the 1960s we have learned that cardiovascular complications and
diabetes mellitus are closely intertwined: type 2 diabetes increases
the likelihood of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and accelerated
vascular disease. Thus the growing pandemic of diabetes worldwide is
responsible for increasing death and disability from atherosclerotic
vascular disease, the number one cause of death today.
This publication spells out the enormity of the problem and the
demographic forces at play. In the first part of the book the
fundamental mechanisms responsible for vascular involvement in
diabetes at the genetic, molecular, tissue, organ and organismal
levels are described. The second part provides a detailed description
of the various clinical aspects and the currently available
therapeutic and preventive measures for diabetes, such as lifestyle
changes, angiotensin II receptor blockers, biguanides and fibrates.
An excellent source of information for both cardiovascular
specialists and diabetologists, this book will be equally useful to
experts and trainees.