Heart in Diabetes: A Microvascular Disease
Population
Patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Larger relative CVD mortality risk per HbA1c unit in type 1 versus type 2 diabetes; leaves open whether lowering improves outcomes.
Structured PICO
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Population
Patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes
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Outcome
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortalityhard clinical
Hyperglycemia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality, with a substantially larger relative impact observed in patients with type 1 diabetes compared to type 2 diabetes.
Cite This Study
Markku Laakso (2011) studied this question.