Why the study?
Does diabetes mellitus or its treatment type affect the risk of AMI or mortality in patients with AMI?
Does diabetes mellitus or its treatment type affect the risk of AMI or mortality in patients with AMI?
This historical observational study suggested that treated diabetes does not increase the risk of AMI or subsequent mortality, a finding that contrasts sharply with modern epidemiological evidence.
No increased AMI risk or mortality with treated diabetes in this historical cohort; leaves open whether findings apply amid modern risk factor control and therapies.
A series of 597 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have been screened for diabetes mellitus (DM). Six per cent of the series had DM, which is exactly the frequency of DM in an age-matched population. This finding corresponds with results of other investigators, indicating that treated diabetics do not have an increased risk of AMI. Diabetics suffering from AMI do not have an increased mortality, nor do patients treated with oral antidiabetics have a higher mortality than those treated with insulin.
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Jan Kvetny (1976) studied this question.
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