Type 2 diabetes and incidence of cardiovascular diseases: a cohort study in 1·9 million people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The contemporary associations of type 2 diabetes with a wide range of incident cardiovascular diseases have not been compared. We aimed to study associations between type 2 diabetes and 12 initial manifestations of cardiovascular disease.

Methods

We used linked primary care, hospital admission, disease registry, and death certificate records from the CALIBER programme, which links data for people in England recorded in four electronic health data sources. We included people who were (or turned) 30 years or older between Jan 1, 1998, to March 25, 2010, who were free from cardiovascular disease at baseline. The primary endpoint was the first record of one of 12 cardiovascular presentations in any of the data sources. We compared cumulative incidence curves for the i

SUBMITTER: Shah AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4303913 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature