Aspirin is recommended as cardiovascular disease prevention in patients with diabetes mellitus. Due to the increased risk of bleeding and because of the hypothesis that there could be a worsening of microvascular complications related to aspirin, there has been observed an important underutilization of the drug. However, it is now known that aspirin is not associated with a deleterious effect on diabetic retinopathy and there is evidence indicating that it also does not affect renal function with usual doses (150 […]

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is linked to micro and macrovascular long-term complications. We proposed to study the association between diabetic nephropathy (DN) and retinopathy (DR), and of these complications with clinical-laboratory variables in type 1 DM patients followed in a universitary center. It was a transversal study through medical registry analysis. We studied 81 patients; prevalence of DR was 21.0% and of DN was 35.8%, there was association between the complications. Carriers of DN and DR have greater DM […]

The retinopathy and nephropathy are among the most prevalent and disabling complications associated to microvascular damage in diabetes mellitus. The severity of hyperglicaemia and the presence of arterial systemic hypertension are among the main risk factors for these complications. The ambulatory blood pressure provided a better understanding of patterns of blood pressure in diabetic patients. There is a growing number of evidence relating diabetic patients with abnormal 24h blood pressure patterns. Even subtle modifications of these patterns, frequently shown by […]

Diabetic retinopathy is a frequently observed complication in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, specially in patients with long term disease and poor glicemic control. Irreversible visual loss appears at the final stages of diabetic retinopathy and it is considered one of the most tragic of diabetic complications. It is also considered an important factor of morbidity and has a high economical impact once it is the leading cause of blindness. The pathophysiology of the retinal microvascular alterations is […]