Excess risk of hospitalisation for heart failure among people with type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

Type 2 diabetes is an established risk factor for heart failure, but age-specific data are sparse. We aimed to determine excess risk of heart failure, based on age, glycaemic control and kidney function in comparison with age- and sex-matched control individuals from the general population.

Methods

Individuals with type 2 diabetes registered in the Swedish National Diabetes Registry 1998-2012 (n = 266,305) were compared with age-, sex- and county-matched control individuals without diabetes (n = 1,323,504), and followed over a median of 5.6 years until 31 December 2013.

Results

We identified 266,305 individuals with type 2 diabetes (mean age 62.0 years, 45.3% women) and 1,323,504 control individuals. Of the individuals with type 2 diabetes and control

SUBMITTER: Rosengren A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182656 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature