3rd European Meeting on Vascular Biology and Medicine: pp II/64–II/79.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 3rd European meeting on vascular biology and medicine. The study titled "Complement Factor B and sC5b-9 are Elevated in First-Degree Relatives of South Asian Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)," by R. Somani and colleagues, recruited 119 first-degree relatives of South Asian subjects with T2DM and 119 age and sex-matched South Asian controls. All subjects provided a full medical history, underwent a physical examination and provided a fasting blood sample for measurement of complement factors and standard biochemical risk factors. The study "Collateral Growth in Patients with Chronic Total Coronary Occlusions: Enhanced Proliferative Activity in the Collateral Circulation of Diabetics," by V. Tchaikovski and colleagues, investigated the total proliferative activity of serum from the collateral circulation and compared this with the proliferative activity in the systemic circulation in patients with chronic total coronary occlusions.