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The recent literature is filled with trials of type II diabetes (DM) treatment and cardiovascular (CV) disease, with conflicting conclusions. While intuitively reasonable, not all trials of intensive glucose management in diabetes have been found to reduce CV events nor decrease CV mortality.

Diabetes and CV Disease: An Uneasy Truce

The recent literature is filled with trials of type II diabetes (DM) treatment and cardiovascular (CV) disease, with conflicting conclusions. While intuitively reasonable, not all trials of intensive glucose management in diabetes have been found to reduce CV events nor decrease CV mortality.