A STUDY TO EVALUATE CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS AS AN INDEPENDENT MARKER FOR ASSESMENT OF MACRO VASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN DAIBETES PATIENTS

DR.SREEDEVI. KOONA; Dr. Srujana

Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2016

A STUDY TO EVALUATE CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS AS AN INDEPENDENT MARKER FOR ASSESMENT OF MACRO VASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN DAIBETES PATIENTS

Dr. Sreedevi. Koona, Dr. Srujana

Abstract :

diabetes mellitus is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by a state of chronic hyperglycemia which may lead to various disabling and life threatening and micro vascular complications resulting in reduced quality of life and premature mortality. In this present study it was tried to identify a major problem of type 2 diabetes ,atherosclerosis in subclinical stage by a non invasive method , ultrasound to detect carotid artery intima media thickness a major independent risk factor. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : to compare carotid intima media thickness in type 2 diabetes patients with non diabetic patients. To determine the effect of duration of type 2 diabetes on carotid artery intima media thickness. METHODS: the present study was carried out on 100 patients attending to medicine and endocrinology departments king George hospital Visakhapatnam between the period Feuary 2013 to July 2014. CONCLUSIONS: in our study CIMT is significantly high in all patients with type 2 diabetes than non diabetics. This study concludes that high CIMT to be a surrogate and reliable marker of atherosclerosis among type 2 diabetics it is being a simple non invasive safe and cheap screening technique