Is diabetes mellitus associated with early chronic venous disorder of the lower extremities in Chinese patients with cardiometabolic risk factors?
Female subjects with cardiometabolic risk factors or female diabetic patients face a greater risk of early chronic venous disorder than do male subjects. Diabetic patients with early chronic venous disorder had more serious macrovascular complications than did the controls, and the early venous function was found to be correlated with the blood glucose level and triglyceride status.
In patients dialyzed with a membrane whose ultrafiltration coefficient is high, dialysis is likely to decrease results by one third. Thus sampling blood before dialysis in hemodialyzed patients appears as the best time to stratify the cardiovascular risk in these patients.