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Diabetic small vessel disease, or diabetic microangiopathy, is known to be a specific vascular abnormality, caused in some way by the metabolic and endocrine aberrations characterizing diabetes mellitus. It is not present at the acute onset of classical juvenile diabetes, but develops slowly in the course of many years.

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Lundbæk, K., Christensen, N.J., Ledet, T., Neubauer, B. (1978). Large Vessel Disease in Diabetics — A Specific Diabetic Angiopathy?. In: International Symposium State of Prevention and Therapy in Human Arteriosclerosis and in Animal Models. Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-06754-2_36

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