Abstract 18861: Gender Differences in Hospitalization or Death Due to Heart Failure as Related to Glycemic Control in the ACCORD Trial

Abstract 18861: Gender Differences in Hospitalization or Death Due to Heart Failure as Related to Glycemic Control in the ACCORD Trial

BackgroundHeart failure and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are important causes of hospitalizations and mortality. Heart failure is two and five times more common in T2D men and women, respectively, and is associated with a worse prognosis than in age-matched non-diabetics. The ACCORD trial (NCT00000620) tes...

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Veröffentlicht in:Circulation (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2016-11, Vol.134 (Suppl_1 Suppl 1), p.A18861-A18861
Hauptverfasser: Tesfaldet, Bereket, Patel, Tejas, Amin, Neha, Navarro, Eileen, Sviglin, Helena, Kirby, Ruth, Chen, Jue, Csako, Gyorgy, Gandotra, Charu, Sopko, George, Cooper, Lawton, Coady, Sean, Pucino, Frank, Burkhart, Keith, Chang, Henry, Desvigne-Nickens, Patrice, Liu, Lijuan, Fennessy, Michelle, Leifer, Eric, Raman, Subha, Rosenberg, Yves, Hasan, Ahmed
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Zusammenfassung:BackgroundHeart failure and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are important causes of hospitalizations and mortality. Heart failure is two and five times more common in T2D men and women, respectively, and is associated with a worse prognosis than in age-matched non-diabetics. The ACCORD trial (NCT00000620) tested the impact of intensive (targeted HbA1c
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