The relationship between diabetic capillaropathy and myocardial infarction: a hypothesis.

It is believed that diabetic patients with clinical evidence of diabetic capillaropathy have a greater risk of myocardial infarction than those with the same duration of disease but no evidence of capillaropathy. If the hypothesis presented here is correct, then early attention to diet, perhaps as a means of slowing the rate of atherosclerosis, will be as important as insulin in reducing current mortality statistics.