The authors of a new study report that independent of renal disease, any level of glycaemia is associated with increased mortality risk in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. However, this view may be overly simplistic—a multifactorial approach is required to reduce excess mortality in this population.
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Karalliedde, J., Viberti, G. Excess mortality in well-controlled T1DM without renal disease. Nat Rev Nephrol 11, 132–134 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2014.249
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