Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

cardiovascular disease (CVD) studies in diabetes. Pre-diabetes and atherosclerosis Steven Haffner (San Antonio, TX) gave the Edwin Bierman lecture, discussing the relationship between aspects of pre-diabetes and its relationship to atheroscle-rosis. He noted that one-third of persons without a prior diagnosis of diabetes who had glucose tolerance testing after myo-cardial infarction had diabetes and that another third had pre-diabetes as defined by impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or impaired fasting glucose (IFG) (1). In his analyses, pre-diabetes was defined based