[The influence of diabetes heredity on cardiovasculary risk profile in patients with high age diabetes (author's transl)].

The cardiovasculary risk profile of 105 newly detected, but still untreated, high age diabetics with an average of 69,1 years showing diabetes heredity in relatives of first degree was compared with a corresponding group (same age and same number of patients) without diabetes heredity. Taking into consideration exclusively the danger magnitudes overweight, hypertension, hypertriglyceridaemia, hypercholesterolaemia and hyperuricaemia, one sees an identical risk profile for both groups (the groups of patients were chosen according the principle of biostatistical gemini forming). For the showing of pathogenic magnitudes of influence within the metabolic syndrome the environmental factors seem to have a far greater importance than hereditary diabetogenic ones.