Peter Nilsson, MD, PhD: Diabetes and CVD – Recent Population Changes

Dr. Nilsson talks about the A1c test and CVD risk, and how CVD indicators such as BMI, cholesterol, and blood pressure have changed over the last 20-30 years, both in the diabetic population and the non-diabetic population, including the successful lowering of certain background risk factors. Dr. Nilsson gives some surprisingl examples of why analyzing data from older studies can be difficult, and why prevention is so important….

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Peter M Nilsson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Research in the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, in Malmö, Sweden.