EXERCISE CAPACITY AND MORTALITY IN VETERANS WITH AND WITHOUT TYPE-2 DIABETES: AN ANALYSIS USING PROPENSITY MATCHING


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BAKTIR M. A., Ceran Y., MYERS J.

ACTA ENDOCRINOLOGICA-BUCHAREST, cilt.13, sa.3, ss.378-384, 2017 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier

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Context. Recent studies have demonstrated a strong association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and mortality, but bias due to differences in the distribution of baseline variables has not been adequately considered. We studied a cohort of veterans with and without Type-2 diabetes using a propensity score matching method.