Table 1. MeSH strategy combined with keywords.

Combined MeSH and Keywords search	Database	Number of Results	Inclusion/Exclusion	Duplicates removed
Type 2 Diabetes OR Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus OR Hypoglycemia OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/blood"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diagnosis"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diet therapy"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/drug therapy"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/mortality"[Majr] OR  "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/pathology"[Majr] OR  "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/physiology"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/physiopathology"[Majr] OR "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/prevention and control"[Majr] AND Sudden cardiac death OR Silent ischemia OR "Death, Sudden, Cardiac/etiology"[Majr] OR "Death, Sudden, Cardiac/pathology"[Majr] OR "Death, Sudden, Cardiac/prevention and control"[Majr]	PubMed.	12,239 results.	791 results.	187 duplicates removed.