Does atherosclerosis cause diabetes ?

1987就有一篇文章討論到糖尿病和動脈硬化之關係，但這理論沒被廣泛表受Insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance in the atherosclerosis-prone LA/N corpulent ratArteriosclerosis, 7 (1987), pp. 620–626

以下是Atherosclerosis and pancreatic damage出自Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics　Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2001, Pages 95–100的文章，其中下面是結論的一部份

－－－－These data support our hypothesis that a certain quantitative grade of the β-cell damage is connected with the atherosclerotic process. As a matter of fact, we have found similar lesions as described here, also in elderly diabetics where the disease manifested itself in senile age (above 70 years), even if the lesions started, obviously, much earlier (Carnazzo et al., 1996).－－－

http://www.sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0167494300000881

這結論說明，有一部份的β-cell破壞或壞死是和胰臟血管動脈硬化是有直接量化關係，也就是說－－胰臟血管動脈硬化越嚴重者－－－＞β-cell壞死就越厲害
這意味了一個非常可怕的醫療錯誤！！！！
為什麼糖尿病患者有６５％會有Heart Disease and Stroke??(http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/diabetes/faq3.cfm)

另外一篇文章描述－－胰臟血管動脈硬化和胰臟血管纖維變性及胰臟血管脂肪過多症是直接有關（Severe generalized atherosclerosis was correlated with lipomatosis and fibrosis,－－http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6745910）而這兩個又是糖尿病的主因之一。

很多研究在找尋糖尿病引起動脈硬化的原因（有三篇論文在找尋How Diabetes Drives Atherosclerosis的關係－－－http://www.livestrong.com/…/40983-can-diabetes-cause-ather…/　；　http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/…/080313124430.htm　；http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674740/），但卻很少人作相反的思考！！