Why the study?
Does diabetes impact survival and recurrent myocardial infarction differently in men versus women following an initial myocardial infarction?
Population
Survivors of an initial myocardial infarction (MI) from the Framingham Study
Comparison
Diabetes (exposure) vs Absence of diabetes; male sex
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
34-year
Authors
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May support closer post-MI surveillance in diabetic women; hypothesis-generating from observational data and requires prospective confirmation.
Does diabetes impact survival and recurrent myocardial infarction differently in men versus women following an initial myocardial infarction?
Diabetes eliminates the female survival advantage after an initial MI, significantly increasing the risk of recurrent MI and heart failure in women compared to men.
R. D. Abbott (1988) studied this question.
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