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Diabetes genetic predisposition score and cardiovascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes care - 1 Mar 2013
Qi Qibin, Meigs James B, Rexrode Kathryn M, Hu Frank B, Qi Lu
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes (T2D) and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among patients with T2D. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The current study included 1,012 men and 1,310 women with T2D from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and Nurses' Health Study, including 677 patients with CVD and 1,645 non-CVD control subjects. A genetic predisposition...
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