Proportion of Patients With Diabetes Undergoing CABG Spikes 5-Fold Over 4 Decades (IMAGE)

American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Proportion of Patients With Diabetes Undergoing CABG Spikes 5-Fold Over 4 Decades

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Four-decade trend in prevalence of diabetes among patients undergoing primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting. Each circle represents a yearly percentage, and the solid line is the locally estimated scatterplot smoother (loess) estimate ('Coronary artery bypass grafting in diabetics: A growing health care cost crisis' by Sajjad Raza et al).

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<i>Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery</i>

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