Diabetes mellitus is a complex, chronic illness requiring continuous medical care with
multifactorial risk reduction strategies beyond glycemic control. Ongoing patient self …

A. Children and adolescents 1. Type 1 diabetes Glycemic control a. Screening and
management of chronic complications in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes i …

During childhood and adolescence, there is a gradual shift from diabetes care supervised by
parents and other adults to self-care management. The actual change from pediatric to adult …

Diabetes is a chronic illness that re-quires continuing medical care and patient self-
management education to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term …

Although for most children the process of atherosclerosis is subclinical, dramatically
accelerated atherosclerosis occurs in some pediatric disease states, with clinical coronary …

Deterioration in endothelial function and arterial stiffness are early events in the
development of cardiovascular diseases. In adults, noninvasive measures of atherosclerosis …

Hypertension is associated with increased left ventricular mass (LVM) and carotid intima‐
media thickness (cIMT), which predict cardiovascular (CV) events in adults. Whether target …

Increased arterial stiffness associated with diabetes and the metabolic syndrome may in part
explain the increased cardiovascular disease risk observed in these conditions. Arterial …

We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the letter of Basevi et al.(1). The new
recommendations by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for gestational diabetes …

Objective Adults with obesity or obesity-related type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are at higher risk for
cardiovascular disease possibly due to increased arterial stiffness. We sought to determine if …