A STUDY ON ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETES MELLITUS IN SIDDHARTHA GOVERNMENT GENERAL HOSPITAL VIJAYAWADA

Sriramachandra Murthy.P.V; Niveditha Ragiri; Sreenivasa Chowdary.J

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

A STUDY ON ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETES MELLITUS IN SIDDHARTHA GOVERNMENT GENERAL HOSPITAL VIJAYAWADA

Sriramachandra Murthy. P. V, Niveditha Ragiri, Sreenivasa Chowdary. J

Abstract :

Diabetes is assuming epidemic proportions globally and India would emerge as the diabetic capital of the world in the foreseeable future. The loss of the modulatory role of endothelium may be the initializing and critical factor in diabetic vascular disease. Endothelial dysfunction is believed to be the earliest functional abnormality in diabetes and may serve as a very important surrogate marker for future atherosclerosis among the diabetic population. In view of the facts that diabetes and its macro and micro vascular complications are very common in our country, the role of endothelial dysfunction in causing the above complications. The present study was undertaken with the following aims at studying endothelial dysfunction in patients of type 2 Diabetes mellitus and to compare it with age and sex matched control subjects, and to compare endothelial dysfunction among patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus and controls.