Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes (Feb 2021)

Consensus on the management of patients with diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease

  • José Álvarez,
  • Florencia Aranguren,
  • Fernando Belcastro,
  • Fernando Brites,
  • Carlos Buso,
  • Marta Calvagno,
  • Christian Caroli,
  • Leonardo Celano,
  • Hernán Cohen Arazi,
  • Daniel Comtesse,
  • Pablo Corral,
  • Juan Pablo Costabel,
  • Alicia Elbert,
  • Cristina Faingold,
  • Graciela Fuente,
  • Pablo García Merletti,
  • Mariano Aníbal Giorgi,
  • Gustavo Giunta,
  • Héctor Gómez Santamaría,
  • Enrique González Naya,
  • Claudio Hadid,
  • Ariel Kraselnik,
  • Augusto Lavalle Cobo,
  • León Litwak,
  • Martín Lobo,
  • Alfredo Lozada,
  • Claudio Majul,
  • Walter Masson,
  • Carla Musso,
  • Juan Nogueira,
  • Gabriel Persi,
  • Martín Rodríguez,
  • Emiliano Salmeri,
  • Hugo Sanabria,
  • Silvio Schraier,
  • Isaac Sinay,
  • Daniel Siniawski,
  • Jorge Thierer,
  • Susana Salzberg,
  • Cristian Suárez Cordo,
  • Jorge Lerman,
  • Álvaro Sosa Liprandi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.47196/diab.v55i1Sup.466
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 1Sup
pp. 03 – 70

Abstract

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This Consensus comes to light in the midst of one of the worst global health crises in the last 100 years. SARS-CoV-2 and its clinical manifestation, COVID-19, have caused a disruption in how doctors and patients interact. Although it is an infectious disease, one of the most notable characteristics is that its mortality increases in patients with chronic non-communicable diseases and, in particular, with a history of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In this context, then, we believe that the recommendations made in this document, which aim to identify and protect these patients, become more relevant, while the implementation, beyond the statements, of specific cardiometabolic prevention policies becomes a priority.

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