Abstract
There are more than 700,000 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) in the Czech Republic, out of whom over 90 % are classified as type 2 diabetics. Vascular complications of type 2 DM are currently a common cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients.
DM is one of the diseases closely related to ischaemic stroke. In persons with DM, the prevalence of ischaemic stroke is threefold higher compared to that in the nondiabetic population, and the mortality of diabetics with stroke is also threefold higher.
Insufficient compensation of DM positively correlates with the risk of developing ischaemic stroke. In addition, DM adversely affects the course of ischaemic stroke and increases the likelihood of more prominent and severe stroke sequelae.