Key result
Diabetes mellitus may confer a reduced risk of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections, as discussed in this editorial commenting on a nationwide case-control study.
Why the study?
Are people with diabetes mellitus at reduced risk of acute aortic dissection?
Are people with diabetes mellitus at reduced risk of acute aortic dissection?
An editorial discussing a provocative nationwide case-control study that suggests diabetes mellitus may confer a reduced risk of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.
A re people with diabetes mellitus at reduced risk of acuteaortic dissection? It would be a sweet surprise, but the provocative question relates to the findings of a nationwide case–control study by the Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Texas in Hous-ton, published in this issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA),1 indicating that diabetes mellitus confers a reduced risk of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. If such inverse relationship is real, this observation would have an important impact and would be revolutionary in the sense that people with diabetes mellitus, despite their chronic dis-ease condition (as bad as it may be), would face a lower risk of suffering and dying from an acute aortic catastrophe. The ex-pected tsunami-like global epidemic of newly diagnosed cases of diabetes mellitus in both Western societies and developing countries2–5 would eventually wash ashore some treasures,
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Christoph Anton Nienaber (2012) conducted an editorial in Thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. Diabetes mellitus was evaluated on Thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. Diabetes mellitus may confer a reduced risk of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections, as discussed in this editorial commenting on a nationwide case-control study.
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