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While a study from the U.K. in the early 1990s showed that there was under-coding of diabetes in hospital records [ 91 ] , later studies from the US have reported a greater than 90% accuracy rate in coding of major macrovascular complications in diabetic patients [ 92 ] . The coding error rate in the OCCP data is unknown, but for the purpose of this analysis, it is only of concern if there is a cost-relevant bias in the cases included.
Building on our previously published work on the Canadian costs of major macrovascular complications of diabetes [ 12 ] , the aim of this paper is to provide key pieces of that complex economic puzzle.
There is an established connection between diabetes and both macrovascular and microvascular complications [ 4 5 6 ] . It has been reported that in Canada 21% of patients with diabetes have heart disease [ 7 ] and that 25% of all cardiac surgery can be attributed to diabetes.
The patient is also started on low-dose aspirin, indicated for primary prevention of macrovascular disease in people with diabetes who have any risk factors for CVD [4], and a cholesterol-lowering agent, a statin, for his increased LDL cholesterol [6].
Recently, the apolipoprotein E ( APOE ) gene has been suggested to be a risk factor for the development of micro- and macrovascular complications in diabetic patients.