DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i04.023

Pages: 1152-1155

People with diabetes are at increased risk of cardiovascular, peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular disease. A number of studies have investigated the effect of diabetes mellitus on arterial stiffness but very limited data on arterial stiffness is available in the Western Rajasthan and thus, we aim to investigate the type 2 diabetic related progression of arterial stiffness. This case-control study was carried out on 240 subjects were divided into two groups i.e. control 120 and diabetic 120 (60 male: 60 female) (25-60 years). To assess the arterial stiffness by Pulse Wave Analysis (PWA) and Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV). Our study concluded that the presence of diabetes is associated with increased arterial stiffness and it may contribute in part to increased cardiovascular risk in diabetic patients, when compare with control and statistically highly significant (p<0.001).