Cardiovascular Risk Factor Burden in People With Incident Type 2 Diabetes in the U.S. Receiving Antidiabetic and Cardioprotective Therapies

• Published in: Diabetes care Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 644 - 650
• Main Authors: Montvida, Olga, Cai, Xiaoling, Paul, Sanjoy K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Diabetes Association 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Antidiabetics; Antihypertensives; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular diseases; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetes mellitus (non-insulin dependent); Electronic health records; Electronic medical records; Health risks; Levels; Lipids; Low density lipoprotein; Medical research; Metformin; Patients; Population studies; Research design; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Risk management; Triglycerides; United States > US

Individualized treatment of patients with diabetes requires detailed evaluation of risk factor dynamics at the population level. This study evaluated the persistent glycemic and cardiovascular (CV) risk factor burden over 2 years after treatment intensification (TI). From U.S. Centricity Electronic...