how aggressively to treat cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes patients
May 2011
There's controversy about how aggressively to treat cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes patients.
We were all taught that type 2 diabetes is a "cardiovascular risk equivalent"...meaning most diabetes patients have a similar risk of a cardiovascular event as patients with established heart disease.
But this is an oversimplification made in previous guidelines.
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