Abstract

Kuldeep Dhaked* and Yogesh Kumar Sharma

ABSTRACT

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the body cannot produce enough or effective insulin. Patients with type 2 diabetes are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease, with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality compared to non-diabetics. Much of this additional risk is related to the higher prevalence of known risk factors such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, and obesity in these patients. However, the improvement in cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes is not only due to a higher prevalence of traditional risk factors. Cardiovascular disease is characterized by a complex combination of several traditional and unconventional risk factors that play a key role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis over its long natural history, from endothelial function to clinical events. Increases in people with type 2 diabetes. The aim of this review is to highlight the weight of traditional and non-traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the context of type 2 diabetes mellitus and to discuss their place in the etiology of excess cardiovascular disease in these patients.