[Peculiarities of atherosclerotic damage of brachiocephalic arteries in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus].

The state of vascular bed of brachiocephalic arteries was studied by the method of color duplex scanning in 250 patients (116 men and 134 women) with atherosclerosis of various vascular basins which in 62 of them took place at the background of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Two hundred five patients had atherosclerosis of brachiocephalic arteries, 45 patients without atherosclerotic plaques in carotid arteries comprised control group. Mean age of patients was 65.