KDR and type 1 diabetes mellitus: In terms of T1DM, authors like Maiorino et al. and Salem et al. have stated that the low number of circulating EPCs (cEPCs: CD34+CD133+KDR+) could be considered as a predictor of the cardiovascular risk and the mortality income of these patients, existing an inverse correlation between glucose levels and cEPCs number [97, 98].