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Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2006) 3, 407-408
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio0596  

Risk of cardiovascular disease very high in patients with type 1 diabetes

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Patients with type 1 diabetes are known to be at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the degree of risk is unknown. Strategies for disease prevention and evaluation of improvements in therapy are therefore difficult to develop. Soedamah-Muthu et al. have used information from the General Practice Research Database, which contains general practice records representative of the UK population, to estimate cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a large cohort of patients with type 1 diabetes.

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