Diabetes and coronary artery disease impose similar cardiovascular morbidity and mortality on renal transplant candidates
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Diabetes and coronary artery disease impose similar cardiovascular morbidity and mortality on renal transplant candidates.
BACKGROUND In renal transplant candidates (RTC), diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) are commonly observed. However, whether diabetes imparts a cardiovascular risk equivalent to that of CAD and whether CAD adds to the cardiovascular risk associated with diabetes is unknown. METHODS To assess the interplay between diabetes and CAD as a determinant of major adverse cardiovascular events ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl781