Diabetes, Endothelial Dysfunction, and Vascular Repair: What Should a Diabetologist Keep His Eye on?

摘要: Cardiovascular complications are the most common of diabetes mellitus. A prominent attribute diabetic cardiovascular is accelerated atherosclerosis, considered as a still incurable disease, at least more advanced stages. The discovery endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), able to replace old and injured mature capable differentiating into healthy functional cells, has offered prospect merging traditional theories on pathogenesis atherosclerosis with evolving concepts vascular biology. literature supports notion that EPC alterations involved in diseases diabetics, but present many questions remain unanswered. In this review aspects linking altered biology mellitus discussed.