Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2155-9880
+44 1300 500008
Sameh Ahmed Salama
Cairo University, Egypt
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Clin Exp Cardiolog
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and diabetes are among the leading global and regional causes of death between 1990 and 2016. CVD deaths increased by 25%. In a recent comparative assessment of the global burden of metabolic risk factors for CVD, 60% of worldwide CVD deaths in year 2010 was attributable to four modifiable cardiometabolic risk factors: high BP, blood glucose, BMI, and serum cholesterol. Heart failure is twice as common in diabetic men and five times as common in diabetic women compared to non-diabetics and mortality rates are about twice that of non-diabetic population. The clinical spectrum of cardiovascular diseases in diabetes involves coronary artery disease, heart failure, serious arrythmias and sudden cardiac death, peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease and stroke. Higher glucose levels predicts higher CV risk, each 1% increase in HBA1c leads to 15% increase in the risk of heart failure. It is conclusively established that the microvascular complications of diabetes (retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy) are directly related to the severity and duration of hyperglycaemia, as reflected by the HbA1c. However, macrovascular complications are the primary cause of mortality, with myocardial infarction and stroke accounting for 80% of all deaths in diabetic patients. Therefore, when selecting medications to normalize glucose levels in diabetic patients, it is important that the agent should not aggravate, and ideally even improve, Cardiovascular Risk Factors (CVRFs) and reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this presentation, we will review the effect of oral glucose-lowering drugs (metformin, sulfonylureas, meglitinides, thiazolidinediones, DPP4 inhibitors, SGLT2 inhibitors and �±-glucosidase inhibitors) on established CVRFs and long-term studies of cardiovascular outcomes.
Sameh Ahmed Salama is currently a Professor of Cardiology at Cairo University. He completed his Doctorate degree in Cardiovasculr Medicine at Cairo University, after completing his training on “Coronary interventions and intravascular imaging in the states” in the period from 1997 to 1999. He is a Fellow of Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). He is a member of the Egyptian and European Societies of Cardiology as well as the Egyptian Hypertension Society. He is also a Member of the Executive Board of the Egyptian Association of Vascular Biology & Atherosclerosis. His main interest is in “Coronary interventions and intravascular imaging”. He has numerous publications in reputed journals. He is currently serving as an Editorial Board Member in three international journals. He participated, as a Prinicipal Investigator in many international cardiovascular trials.
Email: samehsalama70@yahoo.com