[Association between breast arterial calcifications and degree of control and severity of diabetes].
OBJECTIVE
Our goal was to analyze the association between the presence of arterial calcifications detected on mammography and the degree of control and severity of diabetes.


METHODS
We included all menopausal women with diabetes aged between 45 and 68 years from two health districts who participated in the breast cancer screening campaign of the region (n = 230). We reviewed their mammographies to evaluate the presence of arterial calcifications and thus associate these findings with factors determining the control and severity of diabetes (glycemia, glycosylated hemoglobin, micro- and macrovascular chronic complications) as obtained from the patients' medical records.


RESULTS
The prevalence of breast arterial calcification was 40%. Patients with breast arterial calcifications had had diabetes for longer time and had more microvascular chronic complications.


CONCLUSIONS
The presence of arterial calcifications detected on mammography in menopausal women with diabetes over 45 years of age is associated with microvascular chronic complications.
Fuster Selva
María Josefa
MJ
Unidad de Prevención de Cáncer de Mama, Centro de Salud Altabix, Elche, Alicante, Spain. fuster@portalada.net
Orozco Beltrán
Domingo
D
Sáez Castán
Julio
J
Merino Sánchez
Jaime
J
D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001940:Breast / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D017698:Postmenopause; D015995:Prevalence; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology
D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin