Coexistence of diabetes mellitus and pre-existing cardiovascular disease and mortality in Chinese patients on peritoneal dialysis

Table 3 The incidence rate of all-cause and CVD deaths^a

	All-cause mortality	CVD mortality	Time at risk (years)	All-cause death incidence	CVD death incidence
Overall	519	258	10,122.2	51.3	25.5
Control group	256	125	7697.3	33.3	16.2
Pre-existing CVD group	57	34	785.6	72.6	43.3
DM group	117	57	1143.1	102.4	49.9
DM plus pre-existing CVD group	89	42	496.2	179.4	84.6

DM diabetes mellitus, CVD cardiovascular disease
^aIncidence rate was calculated as number of events divided by total valid observational time at risk, scaled to episodes per 1000 years

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