Cardiovascular system disease in youth patients with various forms of glucose metabolism impairment - diagnosis and treatment.

For many years chronic complications of diabetes in adolescent patients were linked mainly to microangiopathy. New, more and more accurate, diagnostic methods, making noninvasive diagnosis of very early lesions in the vascular wall possible, allowed to find out that microangiopathic lesions may be present even in very young patients. Maintenance of increased blood glucose levels initiates a number of mechanisms which lead to damage of blood vessels and nerves. Early detection and treatment of these abnormalities may help to prevent the natural progression of the disease. Effective early prevention of cardiovascular disease will involve the lifestyle modification.