Observational study quantifies infectious disease risk in people with diabetes, suggesting infection as a significant complication.
Diabetes confers an increased risk of developing and dying from an infectious disease, corroborating both in vitro evidence and commonly held clinical belief. In addition to microvascular and macrovascular sequelae, clinicians should consider infection a complication of diabetes.
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