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Table 3 Prevalence of cardiovascular events in non-drug naive and drug-naive T2DM patients at the beginning of the study

From: Peripheral arterial disease progression and ankle brachial index: a cohort study with newly diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes

Cardiovascular events

Group 1

(non-drug naive)

Group 2

(drug-naive)

p

N = 978

N = 221

Acute myocardial infarction (yes/no)

17/961 (1.4%)

0/221 (0%)

0.2

Stroke (yes/no)

37/941 (3.7%)

4/217 (1.8%)

0.1

Cardiac catheterization (yes/no)

39/939 (4.0%)

1/220 (0.4%)

 < 0.01

Coronary revascularization (yes/no)

32/946 (3.9%)

0/221(0%)

 < 0.05

Heart failure (yes/no)

29/949 (2.9%)

1/220 (0.4%)

 < 0.05

Angina pectoris (yes/no)

48/930 (4.9%)

0/221 (0%)

 < 0.01

Atrial fibrillation (yes/no)

2/976 (0.2%)

0/221 (0%)

0.5

  1. Group 1 Individuals with T2DM undergoing drug treatment, Group 2 Newly diagnosed drug-naive (< 3 months) patients with T2DM. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05