[Association between breast arterial calcifications and degree of control and severity of diabetes]. / Relación entre las calcificaciones arteriales detectadas por mamografía y el grado de control y gravedad de la diabetes mellitus.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to analyze the association between the presence of arterial calcifications detected on mammography and the degree of control and severity of diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHOD: We included all menopausal women with diabetes aged between 45 and 68 years from two health districts who participated in the breast cancer screening campaign of the region (n = 230). We reviewed their mammographies to evaluate the presence of arterial calcifications and thus associate these findings with factors determining the control and severity of diabetes (glycemia, glycosylated hemoglobin, micro- and macrovascular chronic complications) as obtained from the patients' medical records. RESULTS: The prevalence of breast arterial calcification was 40%. Patients with breast arterial calcifications had had diabetes for longer time and had more microvascular chronic complications. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of arterial calcifications detected on mammography in menopausal women with diabetes over 45 years of age is associated with microvascular chronic complications.