CMAJ January 6, 2009; 180 (1). doi:10.1503/cmaj.071027.
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Comparison of prognosis for men with type 2 diabetes mellitus and men with cardiovascular disease
Gilles R. Dagenais, MD,
Annie St-Pierre, PhD,
Patrick Gilbert, MD,
Benoît Lamarche, PhD,
Jean-Pierre Després, PhD,
Paul-Marie Bernard, MSc and
Peter Bogaty, MD
From the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et pneumologie (Dagenais, St-Pierre, Després, Bogaty), the Institut de nutraceutiques et aliments fonctionnels (Lamarche) and the Faculté de médicine (Bernard), Université Laval, Québec, Que.; and the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (Gilbert), Montréal, Que.

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Figure 1: Cardiovascular and total mortality among men with diabetes or cardiovascular disease (CVD). *Adjusted for age (dichotomized as < 60 yr and 60 yr). Note: CI = confidence interval.
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Figure 2: Unadjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curves for cardiovascular disease mortality among men with neither diabetes nor cardiovascular disease, men with diabetes and no cardiovascular disease, and men with a first acute cardiovascular event and no diabetes. Log-rank test: p < 0.001.
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Figure 3: Unadjusted Kaplan–Meier survival curves for all-cause mortality among men with neither diabetes nor cardiovascular disease, men with diabetes and no cardiovascular disease, and men with a first acute cardiovascular event and no diabetes. Log-rank test: p < 0.001.
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