Response to Comment on: Hanssen et al. Associations Between the Ankle-Brachial Index and Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality Are Similar in Individuals Without and With Type 2 Diabetes: Nineteen-Year Follow-Up of a Population-Based Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2012;35:1731–1735 | Zendy

Nordin M.J. Hanssen | Zendy; M. Huijberts | Zendy; Casper G. Schalkwijk | Zendy; Giel Nijpels | Zendy; Joost Dekker | Zendy; Coen D.A. Stehouwer | Zendy

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Response to Comment on: Hanssen et al. Associations Between the Ankle-Brachial Index and Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality Are Similar in Individuals Without and With Type 2 Diabetes: Nineteen-Year Follow-Up of a Population-Based Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2012;35:1731–1735

Author(s) -

Nordin M.J. Hanssen,

M. Huijberts,

Casper G. Schalkwijk,

Giel Nijpels,

Joost Dekker,

Coen D.A. Stehouwer

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc13-0742

Subject(s) - medicine , ankle , diabetes mellitus , cardiology , guideline , index (typography) , gerontology , surgery , endocrinology , pathology , world wide web , computer science

Dr. Tasci (1) seems to have completely missed the main point of our article (2). He seems to think that we found no associations between the ankle-brachial index (ABI) and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, whereas in fact we found strong associations, which, importantly, were similar in individuals with and without diabetes.1. The most recent American Heart Association guideline indeed states that the most precise estimate of the ABI is obtained by measuring pressures in both ankle arteries …

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