Three-vessel coronary disease in diabetics: personalized versus evidence-based revascularization strategy

In this article, the authors discuss the challenges and best practices in treating heart disease in patients with diabetes. This review, from Future Cardiology, is free to access exclusively for The Evidence Base® members. A steady increase in the number of diabetic patients undergoing coronary revascularization has been recorded in recent years. The causes for this rise are found predominantly in the general demographic development of western industrialized nations, the epidemic progress and wide-spread of diabetes mellitus and changes in assignment behavior.  In this review, researchers from the University of Padua Medical School (Padua, Italy) discuss the risk profile of...