Response To Comment On Shah Et Al. Cardiovascular Complications And Mortality After Diabetes Diagnosis For South Asian And Chinese Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2013;36:2670-2676

We wish to thank Tillin et al. (1) for their comments on our study (2). We agree that the absence of information on smoking status from population-level health care administrative data limits our ability to adjust for this important cardiovascular risk factor, and that this and other unmeasured risk factors could confound the relationships we found between ethnicity and cardiovascular complications or mortality. However, as noted in the article, we conducted …