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Nearly 1 in 3 Type 2 Diabetes Patients Develop Cardiorenal Disease or Die Within 5 Years
Key Takeaways
- A study of nearly 1.62 million adults with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes was presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting in Milan.
- Within five years of diagnosis, 19.0% of patients developed chronic kidney disease first versus 8.3% who developed heart failure first.
- After chronic kidney disease, the five-year risk of heart failure was 22.7%; after heart failure, the five-year risk of chronic kidney disease was 42.0%.
- The composite risk of chronic kidney disease, heart failure or death was 32.9% at five years and 55.1% at 10 years.
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DT Editorial Team··via medicalxpress.com