LEADER 7: Cardiovascular risk profiles of US and European participants in the LEADER diabetes trial differ

Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Rutten, Guy E H M ^a   Tack, Cees J ^b   Pieber, Thomas R ^c   Comlekci, Abdurrahman ^d   Ørsted, David Dynnes ^e   Baeres, Florian M M ^e   Marso, Steven P ^f   Buse, John B ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular outcome trial; External validity; Generalizability; Heterogeneity; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971501056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17585996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13098-016-0153-5     Document Type: Article

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