Association of treatment-achieved HbA1c with incidence of coronary artery disease and severe eye disease in diabetes patients

To examine the association between treatment-achieved HbA1c values and incidence of both coronary artery disease (CAD) and severe eye disease with different diabetes treatments.Associations of treatment-achieved HbA1c were investigated in various treatment groups [diet only; insulin; sulphonylurea (SU) alone; SU with glinides; and antihyperglycaemic agents other than glinides, SU or insulin] taken from a nationwide claims database of 14,633...