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Double diabetes: the cardiovascular implications of combining type 1 with type 2 diabetes
Author(s) -
Cleland Steve
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.2120
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , type 1 diabetes , population , incidence (geometry) , risk factor , disease , epidemiology , pediatrics , endocrinology , environmental health , physics , optics
210 PRACTICAL DIABETES VOL. 34 NO. 6 COPYRIGHT © 2017 JOHN WILEY & SONS The current prevalence of double diabetes is 25% but this is projected to rise over the next few years. As Dr Steve Cleland here describes, we may need to widen our horizons and learn to spot patients with double diabetes in order to address cardiovascular risk at an earlier stage, and be prepared to use concurrent therapeutic strategies normally reserved for patients with type 2 diabetes.