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The National Diabetes Register in Sweden

Soffia Guðbjörnsdóttir, Jan Cederholm, Peter M. Nilsson, Björn Eliasson

Diabetes Care · 2003 · 253 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Decreasing mean HbA(1c) and BP levels and the wider use of lipid-lowering drugs during the late 1990s in patients with diabetes in a national sample from Sweden should translate into clinical benefits regarding micro- and macrovascular complications as well as diabetes-related mortality.

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