Majority of T2DM patients are at high risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke
Preventing heart attacks and strokes in type 2 diabetes patients managed in primary care should be an urgent priority, according to the study, ‘Half of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus are at very high cardiovascular risk according to the 2019 ESC/EASD categories: data from a large Mediterranean population’, published on World Diabetes Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).