SynthesisDiabetologia2014
Diabetes as risk factor for incident coronary heart disease in women compared with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 64 cohorts including 858,507 individuals and 28,203 coronary events.
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- Sex differences in trial representation and the cardiovascular effectiveness of newer glucose-lowering agents in patients with and without type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cardiovascular outcome trials.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Pooled it
- Incidence of acute myocardial infarction in people with diabetes compared to those without diabetes: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2026Pooled it
- 10. Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Care in Diabetes-2026.Diabetes care · 2026Guideline
- The association between maternal diabetes and the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in offspring: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Age and Sex Differences in Efficacy of Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes: A Network Meta-Analysis.JAMA · 2025Pooled it
- Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Long-Term PMFrontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Sex Disparities in Cardiovascular Risk Factor Assessment and Screening for Diabetes-Related Complications in Individuals With Diabetes: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Pooled it
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- Sex-difference of multifactorial intervention on cardiovascular and mortality risk in DKD: post-hoc analysis of a randomised clinical trial.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2024Trial
- Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Events in Women vs Men With Type 1 Diabetes.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Triglyceride and Glucose Index and Sex Differences in Relation to Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Hypertensive Patients Without Diabetes.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Trial
- Management of type 2 diabetes, 2026. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).Diabetologia · 2026Article
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- Antecedent of Pregnancy-Related Cardiometabolic Complication and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Women With Type 2 Diabetes.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Article
- FGFR1/KLB-MFG-E8 Maintains Microvascular Integrity and Adaptive Cardiac Remodeling.Circulation research · 2026Article
- Sex Differences in the Cardiovascular Significance of Albuminuria in Type 2 Diabetes: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- HDL Cholesterol and the Triglyceride-to-HDL Cholesterol Ratio in Relation to Coronary Artery Disease Complexity in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Post-transplant diabetes is associated with late systolic left ventricular dysfunction after heart transplantation.JHLT open · 2026Article
- Global Burden and Projections of Stroke Related to High Fasting Plasma Glucose in Young Adults: A Comparative Analysis From 1990 to 2050.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
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Abstract
aims/hypothesisA previous pooled analysis suggested that women with diabetes are at substantially increased risk of fatal CHD compared with affected men. Additional findings from several larger and more contemporary studies have since been published on the sex-specific associations between diabetes and incident CHD. We performed an updated systematic review with meta-analysis to provide the most reliable evidence of any sex difference in the effect of diabetes on subsequent risk of CHD.
methodsPubMed MEDLINE was systematically searched for prospective population-based cohort studies published between 1 January 1966 and 13 February 2013. Eligible studies had to have reported sex-specific RR estimates for incident CHD associated with diabetes and its associated variability that had been adjusted at least for age. Random-effects meta-analyses with inverse variance weighting were used to obtain sex-specific RRs and the RR ratio (RRR) (women:men) for incident CHD associated with diabetes.
resultsData from 64 cohorts, including 858,507 individuals and 28,203 incident CHD events, were included. The RR for incident CHD associated with diabetes compared with no diabetes was 2.82 (95% CI 2.35, 3.38) in women and 2.16 (95% CI 1.82, 2.56) in men. The multiple-adjusted RRR for incident CHD was 44% greater in women with diabetes than in men with diabetes (RRR 1.44 [95% CI 1.27, 1.63]) with no significant heterogeneity between studies (I (2) = 20%). CONCLUSIONS/
interpretationWomen with diabetes have more than a 40% greater risk of incident CHD compared with men with diabetes. Sex disparities in pharmacotherapy are unlikely to explain much of the excess risk in women, but future studies are warranted to more clearly elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the substantial sex difference in diabetes-related risk of CHD.
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