Does type 2 diabetes confer higher relative rates of cardiovascular events in women compared with men?

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To investigate whether diabetes confers higher relative rates of cardiovascular events in women compared with men using contemporary data, and whether these sex-differences depend on age.

Methods and results

All Danish residents aged 40-89 years without a history major adverse cardiovascular events, including heart failure, as of 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2016 were categorized by diabetes-status and characterized by individual-level linkage of Danish nationwide administrative registers. We used Poisson regression to calculate overall and age-dependent incidence rates, incidence rate ratios, and women-to-men ratios for myocardial infarction, heart failure, ischaemic stroke, or cardiovascular death (MACE-HF). Among 218 549 (46% women) individuals with diabetes, the

SUBMITTER: Malmborg M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7109603 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature