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Original investigation
LADA is probably the most prevalent form of autoimmune diabetes. Nevertheless, there are few data about cardiovascular disease in this group of patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency ...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:94
Published on: 28 July 2017
Original investigation
Microvascular disease is associated with a high risk of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes, but the impact of macrovascular disease on the risk of microvascular events remains unknown. We so...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:95
Published on: 27 July 2017
Original investigation
A previous genome-wide association study showed that a genetic variant of sortilin was associated with the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the role of circulating sortilin is still unknown. We ...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:92
Published on: 20 July 2017
Commentary
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:91
Published on: 19 July 2017
Erratum
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:90
Published on: 14 July 2017
The original article was published in Cardiovascular Diabetology 2016 15:16
Original investigation
Previous studies regarding the cardioprotective effects of dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors have not provided sufficient evidence of a relationship between DPP-4 inhibition and actual cardiovascular o...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:89
Published on: 11 July 2017
Original investigation
To evaluate symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) and asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) as risk markers of cardiovascular disease, all-cause mortality and deterioration in renal function in a well characterised t...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:88
Published on: 11 July 2017
Original investigation
Omentin-1, also known as Intelectin-1 (ITLN1), is an adipokine with plasma levels associated with diabetes, obesity, and coronary artery disease. Recent studies suggest that ITLN1 can mitigate myocardial ische...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:87
Published on: 7 July 2017
Original investigation
Although Japanese–Americans and native Japanese share the same genetic predispositions, they live different lifestyles, resulting in insulin resistance in Japanese–Americans. We investigated whether the quanti...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:83
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is an established prognostic marker in acute and chronic heart failure (HF). Recent studies have pointed out a link among RDW, diabetes mellitus (DM) and inflammation. W...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:81
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Measures of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) function provide a better risk estimate for future CVD events than serum le...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:85
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
Emerging evidence suggests that specific (poly)phenols may constitute new preventative strategies to counteract cell oxidative stress and myocardial tissue inflammation, which have a key role in the patho-phys...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:80
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
To investigate the association between diabetic retinopathy (DR) and myocardial dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes and dilated cardiomyopathy (dCMP).
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:82
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
Recent studies reported that sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors can potentially reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, there is li...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:84
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
Little is known about clinical associations between glucose fluctuations including hypoglycemia, heart rate variability (HRV), and the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) in patients with acute ph...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:86
Published on: 6 July 2017
Original investigation
Albuminuria is an established marker for endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular risk in diabetes and prediabetes. Exercise induced albuminuria (EiA) appears earlier and may be a more sensitive biomarker fo...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:79
Published on: 23 June 2017
Original investigation
Poor glycemic control is associated with impaired left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Inappropriate LV mass increase and accelerated aortic stiffening wer...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:78
Published on: 17 June 2017
Original investigation
Recently, basic and clinical studies have provided evidence supporting the relationship between circulating levels of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 23 and the development of atherosclerosis. Given that diabet...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:77
Published on: 15 June 2017
Review
The increasing prevalence of atherosclerosis has become a worldwide health concern. Although significant progress has been made in the understanding of atherosclerosis pathogenesis, the underlying mechanisms a...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:76
Published on: 15 June 2017
Original investigation
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a multi factorial disease, affecting clinical outcomes in failing heart patients treated by cardiac resynchronization therapy with a defibrillator (CRT-d).
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:75
Published on: 9 June 2017
Original investigation
We aimed to investigate the impact of diabetes duration and carotid artery stenosis (CAS) on the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) withou...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:74
Published on: 6 June 2017
Original investigation
In Phase 2/3 studies of basal insulin peglispro (BIL) compared to insulin glargine, patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes previously treated with insulin and randomized to BIL had an increase in serum trigly...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:73
Published on: 6 June 2017
Original investigation
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) regulates blood glucose levels and inflammation, and it is also implicated in the pathophysiological process of myocardial infarction (MI). Plasma DPP4 activity (DPP4a) may provid...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:72
Published on: 6 June 2017
Review
Mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of ischemia/reperfusion injury are particularly complex, multifactorial and highly interconnected. A complex and entangled interaction is also emerging between platelet f...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:71
Published on: 31 May 2017
Study protocol
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is often associated with mixed dyslipidaemia, where non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) levels may more closely align with cardiovascular risk than low-density ...
Cardiovascular Diabetology 2017 16:70
Published on: 25 May 2017
