Is heart failure the most lethal complication of diabetes?

I've been following a debate at the European Diabetes meeting on this point. The argument is that diabetologists and cardiologists fail to notice that heart failure is the most adverse outcome of diabetes and is killing more patients than we seem to notice. Is this right? And more importantly should we do anything about it? sadian
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