Cardiovascular diagnostic methods in patients with diabetes mellitus. A review

Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of mortality in world. Currently, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one main risk factors for major adverse cardiovascular events. T2DM patients have a four-fold higher developing heart failure and 10 to 12 times mortality. Echocardiography all its modalities best clinical tool diagnosis, since it provides static dynamic images that allow identify structural functional changes, such as pressure variations, flow left ventricular ejection fraction myocardial surfaces anatomical remodeling.