Erschienen in:
01.01.2010 | Letter
Duration of diabetes, glucose control and cardiovascular risk
verfasst von:
N. V. Emanuele
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 1/2010
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Excerpt
To the Editor: We read with great interest the meta-analysis by the Collaborators on Trials of Lowering Glucose (CONTROL) Group of recent trials examining the impact of intensive glycaemic control on cardiovascular risk in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus [
1]. This well executed study analysed data on 27,049 patients in four important recently published prospective trials, the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) study [
2], the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) study [
3], the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) [
4] and the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) [
5]. …