Fig. 1

Two thousand thirty seven patients from the “Institute for Medical Screening of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center” were screened. Of them 235 patients had type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and 1202 were not diabetic. Patients were excluded if they had prior CV events or treated with any anti-platelets medications or anticoagulants. One hundred twenty eight DM patients and 656 non diabetic patients were eligible for inclusion. After further exclusion due to absence from annual F/U or refusal to consent the study population comprised of 82 DM patients and 86 matched non-diabetic control subjects. *Abbreviations: DM type 2 diabetes mellitus, CV Cardiovascular, F/U Follow up, BMI Body mass index