Diabetes as risk factor for incident coronary heart disease in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 64 cohorts including 858,507 individuals and 28,203 coronary events

• Published in: Diabetologia Vol. 57; no. 8; pp. 1542 - 1551
• Main Authors: Peters, Sanne A. E., Huxley, Rachel R., Woodward, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2014; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary Disease - epidemiology; Coronary Disease - etiology; Coronary heart disease; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications; Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance; Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases); Endocrinopathies; Epidemiology; Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance; Female; Gender differences; Heart; Human Physiology; Humans; Incidence; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Meta-Analysis; Metabolic Diseases; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Womens health; Asia; Sex differences; Systematic review; Diabetes; Coronary heart disease; Risk factors; Meta-analysis; Endocrinopathy; Human; Diabetes mellitus; Cardiovascular disease; Review; Risk factor; Female

Aims/hypothesis A previous pooled analysis suggested that women with diabetes are at substantially increased risk of fatal CHD compared with affected men. Additional findings from several larger and more contemporary studies have since been published on the sex-specific associations between diabetes...