在美国,可享受适当医疗的非洲裔2型糖尿病患者比白种人患者罹患临床冠状动脉疾病的危险性小。为此,美国Wake Forest大学医学院的Freedman等对纳入“糖尿病心脏研究”中的糖尿病家族成员进行了相关研究,以评价这些人群在亚临床心血管疾病、冠状动脉或颈动脉钙化斑块以及颈动脉内膜-中层厚度(IMT)等方面可能存在的种族差异。来自2型糖尿病家族的1180名患者参加了这一双色人种队列研究。研究人员 In the United States, people with type 2 diabetes who have adequate medical care are less likely to have clinical coronary artery disease than their Caucasian counterparts. To this end, the United States Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Freedman and other included in the “Diabetes Heart Study” diabetes family members were related to evaluate these groups in subclinical cardiovascular disease, coronary artery or carotid artery calcification plaque and neck Arterial Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) may exist racial differences. 1180 patients from the type 2 diabetes family participated in this bicolor cohort study. Researchers