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SUBMITTER: Effoe VS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5501651 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Effoe Valery S VS McClendon Eric E EE Rodriguez Carlos J CJ Wagenknecht Lynne E LE Evans Gregory W GW Chang Patricia P PP Bertoni Alain G AG
Diabetes research and clinical practice 20170413
<h4>Aims</h4>Increasing carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is associated with incident heart failure (HF). We investigated whether this association differs by diabetes status.<h4>Methods</h4>We characterized 13,590 Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study participants free of baseline HF into normal fasting glucose (NFG, glucose <100mg/dl), impaired fasting glucose (IFG, glucose 100-125mg/dl), and type 2 diabetes (T2D, glucose ≥126mg/dl, self-report, or use of diabetes drugs). CIMT was asses ...[more]