Research Article

Prospective Longitudinal Characterization of the Relationship between Diabetes and Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes

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Major adverse cardiovascular event rates. The major adverse cardiovascular event rate (MI, angina, revascularization, CVA, and death) during the 6-year follow-up period, including the patients with a silent MI, amounted to 25% in this study with an overall clinical event rate of 35%.