Mortality Rates in Trials of Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
Mortality Rates in Trials of Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
| - Diabetes alone does not provide the complete risk of mortality; rather, comorbidities associated with diabetes have a profound effect on mortality and morbidity rates.
- While hypertension continues to be associated with CVD, in T2DM it is not an indicator of a higher risk of mortality, especially if no proteinuria is present.
- A major mortality risk in diabetes is chronic renal failure and/or proteinuria.
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Ebrahim Barkoudah, Hicham Skali, Hajime Uno, Scott D. Solomon, and Marc A. Pfeffer. J Am Heart Assoc. 2012;1:8-15, doi:10.1161/JAHA.111.000059.
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