Inclusion/exclusion criteria
Only patients with type 2 diabetes were studied but the population was not limited by gender, race, or health status. These factors, along with other lifestyle factors like medication and smoking status were adjusted in the statistical risk comparison of the control and experimental groups.
Type of variables
The independent variable was the presence of intensive glucose treatment. The dependent variable was the manifestation of cardiac (or other) related illnesses.
Type of statistical analysis
A hazard ratio was calculated to "represent the risk of an adverse clinical outcome or death among patients reporting severe hypoglycemia as compared with those not reporting severe hypoglycemia" (Zounga 2010).
Conclusion
Intensive glucose lowering was found to be associated with other negative health complaints, including cardiac-related...
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