Anthropometric features and cardiovascular risk in young Latin Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus

The Framingham Score system is not an accurate device to estimate risk of CVD in premenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who otherwise have a multiple features of the MSyn. If used to estimate risk of CVD, the Framingham score system could underestimate the risk of CVD in both young men and women with type 2 diabetes mellitus.