title: [Macroangiopathy in type II diabetes. The Raval South study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the prevalence of clinical forms of diabetic macroangiopathy (DM) and its risk factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive crossover study.
  
  
  METHODS
  An elderly and socio-economically very depressed population in Raval Sud Health District (HD), Barcelona.
  
  
  METHODS
  Random sampling of type II diabetes patients (n = 387) registered in the HD (6.6% prevalence).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Each patient was examined for the presence of diagnostic criteria of peripheric, cerebral or coronary vasculopathy (VP); as well as for the possible risk factors (age, gender, years of the DM's evolution, tobacco, hypertension, obesity, glycosilated haemoglobin and dyslipemia). Prevalences obtained were: peripheric VP = 24.5%, cerebral VP = 9.5%, coronary VP = 18.1%. 30.5% of the diabetics had some form of macroangiopathy. The main risk factors for all the clinical forms (p < 0.001) were age and the length of evolution of DM, tobacco mainly for peripheric VP (p < 0.001), systolic Hypertension for cerebral VP (p = 0.03) and Hypertriglyceridaemia for peripheric VP (p < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Macroangiopathy affects a high percentage (30.5%) of type 2 diabetics. The principal risk factors are those associated with tobacco, hypertension and hypertriglyceridaemia, all of which we can affect and control.
authors.affiliation: Area Básica de Salud Raval Sud, Barcelona.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mur Martí
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Franch Nadal
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morato Griera
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mena González
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vilarrubias Calaf
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Llobera Serentill
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Macroangiopatía en la diabetes tipo II. El estudio Raval Sud.