Explaining the Decline in Early Mortality in Men and Women With Type 2 Diabetes
Open Access
- 1 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Diabetes Association in Diabetes Care
- Vol. 31 (9), 1761-1766
- https://doi.org/10.2337/dc08-0137
Abstract
OBJECTIVE—The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that changing utilization of lipid-lowering, antihypertensive, and oral hypoglycemic drugs may be associated with trends in all-cause mortality in men and women with type 2 diabetes.Keywords
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