New opportunities of antithrombotic therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and stable coronary heart disease for reducing the cardiovascular risk and cardiovascular complications: THEMIS, THEMIS-PCI trials

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Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary heart disease belong to a group with a very high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. In patients with coronary atherosclerosis, DM increases the risk of ischemic events by 2–4 times. Apparently, increased antithrombotic therapy has an advantage in patients with DM who have had myocardial infarction. However, until recently it was not clear there is such an advantage in patients with DM and stable coronary artery disease without prior myocardial infarction. The addition of ticagrelol to monotherapy of acetylsalicylic acid reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 DM and stable coronary artery disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, if patients have a high risk of ischemic events.

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Victor I. Kalashnikov

National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology

Author for correspondence.
Email: victor9368@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5573-0754

чл.-кор. РАН, д-р мед. наук, проф., зав. отд. кардиологии и сосудистой хирургии

Russian Federation, Moscow

Marina S. Michurova

National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology

Email: M.michurova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1495-5847

науч. сотр., врач-кардиолог, эндокринолог отд-ния кардиологии, эндоваскулярной и сосудистой хирургии

Russian Federation, Moscow

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