Contrasting Associations Between Diabetes and Cardiovascular Mortality Rates in Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries: Cohort Study Data From 143,567 Individuals in 21 Countries in the PURE Study.
Ranjit Mohan AnjanaViswanathan MohanSumathy RangarajanHertzel C GersteinUlagamadesan VenkatesanPatrick SheridanGilles R DagenaisScott A LearKoon TeoKubilay KarsidagKhalid F AlhabibKhalid YusoffNoorhassim IsmailPrem K MonyPatricio Lopez-JaramilloJephat ChifambaLia M Palileo-VillanuevaRomaina IqbalAfzalhussein YusufaliAfzalhussein M YusufaliAnnika RosengrenAhmad BahonarKatarzyna ZatonskaKaren YeatesRajeev GuptaWei LiLihua HuM Omar RahmanP V M LakshmiThomas IypeAlvaro AvezumRafael DiazFernando LanasSalim YusufPublished in: Diabetes care (2020)
CVD rates, all-cause mortality, and CV mortality were markedly higher among those with diabetes in LIC compared with MIC and HIC with mortality risk remaining unchanged even after adjustment for risk factors and treatments. There is an urgent need to improve access to care to those with diabetes in LIC to reduce the excess mortality rates, particularly among those in the poorer strata of society.