Why the study?
Does intensive insulin treatment reduce long-term mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction compared to conventional treatment?
Population
Patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
Comparison
Intensive insulin treatment vs Conventional treatment
Follow-up
long-term
Authors
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May support intensive insulin in diabetic AMI despite hyperglycemia; hypothesis-generating, needs RCTs before practice change.
Does intensive insulin treatment reduce long-term mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction compared to conventional treatment?
Intensive insulin treatment reduces long-term mortality in diabetic patients with AMI, mitigating the risk associated with severe glycometabolic state at admission.
Malmberg et al. (1999) studied this question.
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