International Journal of Diabetology & Vascular Disease Research, 2013 © 5 Sokolova L.K. Sokolov M.Y (2013) Prevalence of Major Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Diabetes. Data from The Ukrainian Endovascular Register. Int J Diabetol Vasc Dis Res. 1(1), 5-7 International Journal of Diabetology & Vascular Disease Research(IJDVR) ISSN 2328-353X Prevalence of Major Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Diabetes. Data from The Ukrainian Endovascular Register Review Article Sokolova L.K 1* . Sokolov M.Y 2 1* Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism after V.Komissarenko NAMS of Ukraine, Diabetology Depart-ment, Vushgorodskaya Str, 69, 04114 Kiev, Ukraine 2 Institute of Cardiology after N.Strazhesko NAMS of Ukraine, Department of endovascular surgery and inter-ventional cardiology, 04030 Kiev, Ukraine *Corresponding Author: Sokolova L.K Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism after V.Komissarenko NAMS of Ukraine, Diabetology Department, Vushgorodskaya Str, 69, 04114 Kiev, Ukraine E-mail: liubov_sokolova@ukr.net Receiverd: April 13, 2013 Accepted: April 24, 2013 Published: April 26, 2013 Citation: Sokolova L.K. Sokolov M.Y (2013) Prevalence of Major Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Diabetes. Data from The Ukrainian Endovascular Register. Int J Diabetol Vasc Dis Res. 1(1), 5-7. Copyright: Sokolova L.K © 2013. This is an open-access article distrib- uted under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any me- dium, provided the original author and source are credited. Introduction Diabetes mellitus (DM), along with cardiovascular and cancer is one of the irst places among the most seri-ous diseases that aflict humanity. According to epi-demiological studies of the incidence of diabetes has doubled every 15 years, by 2025, as predicted by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) of their num-ber will grow to 552 million, with 93-95% of patients included patients with type 2 diabetes. All over the world, and diabetes was the lead- ing cause of blindness and kidney failure. In patients with DM in the 2-3, and according to some studies, up to 6 times higher risk of stroke and myocardial infarction [1] The problem of diabetes is also relevant for Ukraine, where there are more than 1 million 280 thousand peo-ple suffering from dia- betes, and every year the num-ber increases progressively. Moreo- ver, on the basis of epidemiological data and the results of com- paring the prevalence of diabetes in our country to the rate in neighboring countries, it can be assumed that the true prevalence of DM in Ukraine in 2-2.5, and probably 3 times more. In addition, the CD has long been considered not only as an en- docrine pathology, but as a disease that affects the cardiovascu- lar system. Namely cardiovascular dis-ease is a major focus for clinical medicine in diabetes. Found that 75-80% of people with diabetes die of car-diovascular disease (CVD), with ¾ of these deaths oc-cur in coronary heart disease (CHD), and others - for cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease. CVD is 4 times more common in people with diabetes than in those with- out diabetes, and 50% of patients at diagnosis of diabetes already have cardiovascular dis-ease. These indings are relected in the decision of the national educational experts of the U.S. program of cholesterol (NCEP ATP III) highlight diabetes as equivalent to coronary heart disease. Thus, all patients with diabetes are at high and very high risk of CVD. In addition, there is a tendency to “rejuvenation” of this disease, so about 50% of the diagnoses established CVD and 15% of deaths from cardiovascular disease occur in patients younger than 65 years. However, the mechanisms that contribute to the high prevalence and severity of coronary artery disease on the background of diabetes, are so far poorly under-stood. To date are limited data on the characteristics of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in patients with diabetes, and found that in terms of diabetes is cru- cial - potentiation of the classic risk factors of atherosclerosis, or a fundamental change in its course with mechanisms speciic to diabetes. The main purpose of our study was to investigate the incidence and prevalence of major risk factors for car-diovascular disease in patients with diabetes and coro-nary artery disease based on the register interventional procedures department of endovascular surgery and interventional cardiology NSC “Institute of Cardiol- ogy after N.Strazhesko “ NAMS of Ukraine Abstract The analysis of the incidence of a number of risk factors for coronary heart disease in 2,700 people with angio-graphically documented coronary atherosclerosis in the electronic register of the Department of Interventional Cardiology in the period from September 1/09/ 2007 to 01/10/2012 was performed. Hypertension, dyslipidemia and multivessel coronary artery lesions were the most frequent in patients with DM. According to our data the most important risk factor for coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes in Ukraine is dyslipidemia, the incidence of which is 2.7 times higher than in the group of patients with coronary artery disease without diabetes. Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus; Coronary Artery Disease; Hypertension; Dyslipidemia