Key result
Cardiovascular disease risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis begin in childhood for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, highlighting the need for early screening and potential use of noninvasive imaging.
This review highlights practice guidelines and imaging modalities for assessing cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents with diabetes.
May inform early risk stratification in pediatric diabetes; extends adult data but remains hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
The increasing prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus combined with advancement in early detection of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has placed CVD as a significant concern for preventative pediatric medicine. The public health burden of type 2 diabetes is predicted to parallel increasing obesity in children with a projected increase of early CVD in adulthood. In this article, we review practice guidelines for cardiovascular health in children and adolescents with diabetes and data on which they are based. We then focus on imaging modalities that are promising tools to expand our understanding of the cardiovascular risk imposed on youths with diabetes.
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Truong et al. (2012) conducted a review in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Cardiovascular disease risk factors and subclinical atherosclerosis begin in childhood for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, highlighting the need for early screening and potential use of noninvasive imaging.
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