Blood pressure and complications in individuals with type 2 diabetes and no previous cardiovascular disease: national population based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

 To compare the risk associated with systolic blood pressure that meets current recommendations (that is, below 140 mm Hg) with the risk associated with lower levels in patients who have type 2 diabetes and no previous cardiovascular disease.

Design

 Population based cohort study with nationwide clinical registries, 2006-12. The mean follow-up was 5.0 years.

Setting

 861 Swedish primary care units and hospital outpatient clinics.

Participants

 187 106 patients registered in the Swedish national diabetes register who had had type 2 diabetes for at least a year, age 75 or younger, and with no previous cardiovascular or other major disease.

Main outcome measures

 Clinical events were obtained from the hospital discharge and death registers with r

SUBMITTER: Adamsson Eryd S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4975020 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature