Vascular risk factors in the obliterative peripheral arteriopathy of diabetic patients.

To estimate the role of some vascular risk factors in the obliterative arteriopathy of diabetic patients, 71 subjects have been investigated: diabetics without arteriopathy, diabetics with arteriopathy and non-diabetics with arteriopathy. Age, sex, body weight, smoking habits, blood pressure, sedentary life style, diabetes therapy, plasma glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, total lipids, HDL-cholesterol, uric acid, and fibrinogen have been assessed, the parameters investigated. The results show that the risk factors studied maintain their role even in the obliterative peripheral arteriopathy of diabetic patients; however, there are differences in the relative importance of some of them.