Incidence of Hospitalization for Heart Failure and Case-Fatality Among 3.25 Million People With and Without Diabetes Mellitus

McAllister, David A.; Read, Stephanie H.; Kerssens, Jan; Livingstone, Shona; McGurnaghan, Stuart; Jhund, Pardeep; Petrie, John; Sattar, Naveed; Fischbacher, Colin; Kristensen, Soren Lund; McMurray, John; Colhoun, Helen M.; Wild, Sarah H.

doi:10.1161/circulationaha.118.034986

Incidence of Hospitalization for Heart Failure and Case-Fatality Among 3.25 Million People With and Without Diabetes Mellitus

Background: Recent clinical trials of new glucose-lowering treatments have drawn attention to the importance of hospitalization for heart failure as a complication of diabetes mellitus. However, the epidemiology is not well described, particularly for type 1 diabetes mellitus. We examined the inc…