Abstract:Patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are at high risk for the development of cardiovascular (CV) disease and premature death (1). Heart failure is a CV outcome whose association with diabetes is being increasingly recognised (2). Heart failure is not only a common complication of T2DM but is also associated with a very poor prognosis. The 5-year survival rate for people with T2DM that develop heart failure has been reported to be less than 25% (3). The results from two randomised clinical trials of glucose low… Show more
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