Lipid management in patients with diabetes: translating guidelines into action

The precise link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes is not completely understood, but it is clearly multifactoral, involving the deleterious effects of hyperglycemia itself, resulting in endothelial dysfunction, hypercoagulability, increased oxidative stress, and protein glycosylation. In the midst of a large number and variety of risk factors, dyslipidemia remains a key determinant of CVD.