Importance of lipid levels in elderly diabetic individuals: baseline characteristics and 1-year survey of cardiovascular events.

Background: The respective incidences of ischemic heart and cerebrovascular disease (IHD, CVD) are high in diabetic individuals. Complications of dyslipidemia increase the risk, but direct evidence is limited, so a cohort prospective study (Japan-CDM) was conducted.

Methods And Results: The study group comprised 4,014 subjects with type 2 diabetes (1,936 women, 2,078 men; mean age 67.