Cerebral Microvascular Transport and Metabolism: Implications for Diabetes

Carotid endarterectomy in diabetic patients

“…Calcified plaques were significantly more common in group A, which also presented a higher mean percentage of stenosis. The relative stability of calcified plaques and the fact that ultrasound scan screening studies are performed more frequently in diabetics may explain the higher number of asymptomatic subjects in this group, which is consistent with the findings of other investigators, 30,34 as well as the lower rate of ischemic lesions on preoperative CT.…”

The Impact of Diabetes on the CNS

“…Metabolic abnormalities, particularly in energy metab-olism (3,14,36,37,139,140), exist in brain microvessels from animals with experimental diabetes. Frequently, altered metabolism of a fuel in vitro by rat brain microvessels correlates with the transport of that fuel in vivo across the blood-brain barrier (82,96,139,140).…”

Illness Beliefs and Coping Strategies of Diabetic Women

“…The transition to survival from diabetes has been described as a chaotic experience in which women try to balance the elation of surviving a lifethreatening illness with the demands of persistent physical symptoms, altered life meaning, uncertainty, and fears of recurrence and sudden death (Kattlove and Winn 2003). Diabetic women are not only at higher risk for Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) than normal women, but they also have a greater risk for coronary artery disease and hypertension (Cerhan et al 1998;Elias et al 1995), cardiovascular diseases (Colsher and Wallace 1991) and stroke (McCall 1992).…”