Response to Comment on Yuan et al. Associations of Concurrent Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes With Mortality Outcomes: A Prospective Study of U.S. Adults. Diabetes Care 48:1241-1250

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
² Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity, University of California, San Diego, CA.
³ Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
⁴ Department of Health Services Administration and Policy, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Nour Makarem et al. Diabetes Care. 2026.

. 2026 Feb 1;49(2):e31-e32.

doi: 10.2337/dci25-0120.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
² Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity, University of California, San Diego, CA.
³ Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
⁴ Department of Health Services Administration and Policy, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

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Conflict of interest statement

Duality of Interest. No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.

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