To the Editor--Diabetes and sudden death: Let's assess the absolute risk increase rather than the proportional risk from sudden cardiac death!
INSERM Centre d'Investigations Cliniques Plurithématique 1433 Université de Lorraine CHRU de Nancy and F-CRIN INI-CRCT Nancy, France; Division of Cardiology University of Perugia School of Medicine Perugia, Italy.
Stefano
S
Coiro
INSERM Centre d'Investigations Cliniques Plurithématique 1433 Université de Lorraine CHRU de Nancy and F-CRIN INI-CRCT Nancy, France; Department of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Cardiovascular Research and Development Unit Faculty of Medicine University of Porto Porto, Portugal.
João
J
Pedro Ferreira
Division of Cardiology University of Perugia School of Medicine Perugia, Italy.
Giuseppe
G
Ambrosio
INSERM Centre d'Investigations Cliniques Plurithématique 1433 Université de Lorraine CHRU de Nancy and F-CRIN INI-CRCT Nancy, France.
Faiez
F
Zannad
INSERM Centre d'Investigations Cliniques Plurithématique 1433 Université de Lorraine CHRU de Nancy and F-CRIN INI-CRCT Nancy, France. Electronic address: nicolas_girerd@yahoo.com.
Nicolas
N
Girerd
D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*