Increasing Cardiovascular Disease Burden Due to Diabetes Mellitus
Author(s) -
Caroline S. Fox,
Sean Coady,
Paul D. Sorlie,
Ralph B. D’Agostino,
Michael J. Pencina,
Ramachandran S. Vasan,
James B. Meigs,
Daniel Levy,
Peter J. Savage
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.106.658948
Subject(s) - medicine , attributable risk , diabetes mellitus , risk factor , hazard ratio , population , proportional hazards model , relative risk , framingham heart study , disease , demography , epidemiology , framingham risk score , confidence interval , endocrinology , environmental health , sociology
Marked reductions in cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality have occurred in the United States over the last 50 years. We tested the hypothesis that the relative burden of CVD attributable to diabetes mellitus (DM) has increased over the past 5 decades.
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