Clinical manifestations and risk factors of coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes mellitus in western Siberia.

Objective: To compare the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and clinical manifestations of coronary artery disease (CAD) between patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and CAD who lived at northern latitudes vs. those who resided at southern latitudes in the Tyumen region, western Siberia.

Study Design: This retrospective study involved 382 patients with type 2 DM selected from 8,573 patients with angiographic CAD (>50% stenosis).

Asymmetric septal hypertrophy in patients with coronary artery disease.

Aims: To assess the relationship between asymmetric septal hypertrophy (ASH) and manifestations of coronary artery disease (CAD).

Methods And Results: A total of 5128 consecutive patients with proven diagnosis of CAD were examined. There were 2469 patients with left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH) (48.