We identified a cohort of individuals with incident diabetes (N = 193,952), from Read codes (https://digital.nhs.uk/article/1104/Read-Codes) in the electronic health record; the cohort included those for whom the first diagnostic code for diabetes (type 1 or type 2 diabetes) was rec...
Benefit may be obtained with a ‘treat-to-target’ approach for HbA1c in the management of CHD, because a close correlation between the risk of CHD and increasing HbA1c has been observed. In a prospective study of 1626 people with T2DM and 1321 people without diabetes, the RR of CHD incr...