[Evaluation of cardiovascular risk according to Framingham criteria in patients with type 2 diabetes].

Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate cardiovascular risk (CR) in type 2 diabetic (T2DM) patients according to Framingham criteria and its possible relationship with other risk factors not included in the Framingham score.

Patients And Methods: We evaluated 333 T2DM outpatients (215 females), aged 56.9+/-9.

[Early infancy onset of type 1A diabetes mellitus in dizygotic twins: association with genetic and environmental factors].

The onset of type 1A diabetes before the first year of age is a rare condition and is probably due to an interaction between genetic and environmental factors (infection), which, together, may explain such an early event. Studies say that about 15% of newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic patients had human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) specific viral genome in their lymphocytes. We report two cases of dizygotic twins with type 1 diabetes onset in their first 9 months of age, with genetic homogeneity (for HLA DR3/DR4 alleles), a history of CMV infection (positive IgG and urinary PCR) and positive antibody anti-GAD (9.