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Intensive glucose control and macrovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes

Abstract

Aims/hypothesisImproved glucose control in type 2 diabetes is known to reduce the risk of microvascular events. There is, however, continuing uncertainty about its impact on macrovascular disease. The aim of these analyses was to generate more precise estimates of the effects of more-intensive, compared with less-intensive, glucose control on the risk of major cardiovascular events amongst patients with type 2 diabetes.MethodsA prospectively …

Authors

Turnbull FM; Abraira C; Anderson RJ; Byington RP; Chalmers JP; Duckworth WC; Evans GW; Gerstein HC; Holman RR; Moritz TE

Journal

Diabetologia, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 2288–2298

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

November 2009

DOI

10.1007/s00125-009-1470-0

ISSN

0012-186X