Vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes: prevalence and associated factors in 38 countries (the DISCOVER study program)

Abstract Background The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes-related complications is not well described. We assessed prevalence of vascular complications at baseline in DISCOVER (NCT02322762; NCT02226822), a global, prospective, observational study program of 15,992 patients with type 2 diabetes in...

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Main Authors: Mikhail Kosiborod, Marilia B. Gomes, Antonio Nicolucci, Stuart Pocock, Wolfgang Rathmann, Marina V. Shestakova, Hirotaka Watada, Iichiro Shimomura, Hungta Chen, Javier Cid-Ruzafa, Peter Fenici, Niklas Hammar, Filip Surmont, Fengming Tang, Kamlesh Khunti, for The DISCOVER investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:Cardiovascular Diabetology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12933-018-0787-8