[New ESC guidelines 2019 Diabetes, prediabetes and cardiovascular diseases : Paradigm shift in reduction of cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes mellitus].

Abstract

At the last meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in 2019 the new version of the ESC guidelines on Diabetes, prediabetes and cardiovascular diseases , which were written in collaboration with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), were presented. The recommendations of these guidelines included the novel evidence generated over the last 6\xa0years in large cardiovascular outcome trials with novel antidiabetic drugs. This led to a completely novel positioning of medications for lowering blood glucose levels in the reduction of cardiovascular events for patients with diabetes mellitus. This overview article summarizes the most important recommendations of these new guidelines.