Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial: design and methods.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on April 16, 2007

Authors

ACCORD Study Group1, John B Buse, J Thomas Bigger, Robert P Byington, Lawton S Cooper, William C Cushman, William T Friedewald, Saul Genuth, Hertzel C Gerstein, Henry N Ginsberg, David C Goff, Richard H Grimm, Karen L Margolis, Jeffrey L Probstfield, Denise G Simons-Morton, Mark D Sullivan

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7172, USA. jbuse@med.unc.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) (ACCORD) | NCT00000620

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