“…Macrovascular disease is uncommon outside of case reports [1,4,5,113], and although screening for microvascular disease should be routinely undertaken [59], microvascular complications are uncommon until at least 5-10 years of CFRD with fasting hyperglycemia [57,114,115]. Therefore they are substantially predated by declines in lung function [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][116][117][118] and nutritional status [7, 9-12, 14, 117], both of which are significant predictors of early mortality in CF [10,11,16,18,25,56,119]. Four large cohort studies also report higher annual frequency in diabetic vs. non-diabetic CF patients of pulmonary exacerbations requiring intravenous antibiotics or hospitalization [10,21,39,120], and it was recently demonstrated that diabetic CF patients have reduced recovery of baseline forced expiratory volume in 1 sec as a percentage of predicted (FEV 1 %) following pulmonary exacerbations [116].…”