Internal medicine
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To examine risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) and retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and assess the relationship between CAD and retinopathy. ⋯ Since it is difficult to distinguish macrovascular and microvascular diseases, diabetic vascular disorders require comprehensive approaches to assessment and treatment.
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Although metabolic syndrome (MS) is considered to be a predictor of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, its value for predicting diabetes beyond the levels of fasting glucose (FG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) remains questionable. In this study, we evaluated the usefulness of MS and Japanese MS (JMS) as predictors of diabetes. ⋯ MS and JMS were found to be poor predictors of diabetes in a Japanese health screening population.