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Glycemic Variability Is Associated With Reduced Cardiac Autonomic Modulation in Women With Type 2 Diabetes

Jesper Fleischer,1 Simon Lebech Cichosz,1 Pernille Hoeyem,1 Esben Laugesen,1,2 Per Loegstrup Poulsen,1 Jens Sandahl Christiansen,1 Lise Tarnow,3 and Troels Krarup Hansen1

DOI: 10.2337/dc14-0654

OBJECTIVE

To investigate the sex differences in cardiac autonomic modulation in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and to determine whether cardiac autonomic modulation is associated with glycemic variability. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY/COMPLICATIONS

We investigated a cohort consisting of 48 men and 39 women with non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes and a known duration of diabetes