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- adjective Of or pertaining to the larger
blood vessels
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Examples
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PETERS: Well, But that's -- you die from what we call macrovascular or big blood vessel complications, from heart attacks or strokes?
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This results in chronic high blood sugar, giving you microvascular damage, which causes circulation problems, kidney and eye problems, and other fun consequences — as well as chronic high insulin, which buys you macrovascular damage, causing heart disease.
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This results in chronic high blood sugar, giving you microvascular damage, which causes circulation problems, kidney and eye problems, and other fun consequences — as well as chronic high insulin, which buys you macrovascular damage, causing heart disease.
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Ironically, mortality increases with better control: macrovascular events are catastrophic, and hypoglycemia, a more frequent occurrence with tight control, can also be life threatening.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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What if it turns out that taking a statin confers added protection against macrovascular events (stroke and heart attack) whatever level of LDL reduction is achieved (ie, goal or no goal)?
Ahead of the Curve 1 Dinosaur 2009
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What if it turns out that taking a statin confers added protection against macrovascular events (stroke and heart attack) whatever level of LDL reduction is achieved (ie, goal or no goal)?
Archive 2009-05-01 1 Dinosaur 2009
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This was supposed to be the trial that would answer-among other questions- the question "can we decrease the macrovascular events associated with type 2 diabetes with intensive blood glucose control ?"
Archive 2008-02-01 james gaulte 2008
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Later a follow up report from that landmark trial also provided some reasonable evidence that perhaps macrovascular disease could also be decreased.
More crumbling dogma ? -this time lower and lower blood sugar is better james gaulte 2008
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Later a follow up report from that landmark trial also provided some reasonable evidence that perhaps macrovascular disease could also be decreased.
Archive 2008-02-01 james gaulte 2008
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There was some decrease in blood vessel disease on retinal exam and some decrease in the rate of progression of urinary protein leak but no change in renal failure or blindness or clinical manifestations of macrovascular disease.
Archive 2008-02-01 james gaulte 2008
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