Population
943 Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes and serum creatinine <2.00 mg/dl, consisting of 833 ambulatory…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Pulse pressure may link albuminuria to arterial stiffness in type 2 diabetes; hypothesis-generating, should not yet change practice.
In patients with type 2 diabetes, pulse pressure is closely associated with advanced age, the degree of albuminuria, and large artery stiffness, suggesting it may contribute to cardiovascular disease pathogenesis.
Tanaka et al. (2006) studied this question.
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