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SUBMITTER: Cox AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4182905 | biostudies-other | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cox Amanda J AJ Azeem Amir A Yeboah Joseph J Soliman Elsayed Z EZ Aggarwal Shivani R SR Bertoni Alain G AG Carr J Jeffrey JJ Freedman Barry I BI Herrington David M DM Bowden Donald W DW
Diabetes care 20140226 5
<h4>Objective</h4>Heart rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval is associated with mortality in the general population, but this association is less clear in individuals with type 2 diabetes. We assessed the association of QTc interval with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in the Diabetes Heart Study.<h4>Research design and methods</h4>We studied 1,020 participants with type 2 diabetes (83% European Americans; 55% women; mean age 61.4 years) who were free of atrial fibrillation, maj ...[more]