Is increasing derangement of glucose homeostasis associated with increased arterial stiffness in patients with diabetes , impaired fasting glucose and normal controls?
Arterial stiffness parameters varied significantly across subgroups of patients with different degrees of impaired glucose regulation, such that increasingly deranged glucose homeostasis was associated with increased arterial stiffness. Early adverse vascular changes were detected in subjects with IFG.
The technique was introduced in our practice to take care of difficult or grave co-morbidity patients, and some patients had excellent lasting results following a very short procedure and hospital stay. However, given the 36 % complication rate in this series, we do not recommend it unless decisive technical improvements are made.