Features of macrovascular complications in type 2 diabetic patients

Macroangiopathy is the most frequent complication in type 2 diabetic patients. Coexistence of atherosclerosis and diabetes may cause diagnostic difficulties resulting from an asymptomatic course. Alternatively, patients may overexpress their symptoms as the result of awareness the consequences of the disease. Careful assessment of clinical symptoms followed by preventive diagnosis of high-risk patients as well as proper patient education allow for significant reductions of hazard of the consequences of macrovascular complications in diabetic patients.