Diabetes is not a risk factor for myocardial infarction in patients without coronary artery disease: A study from the Western Denmark Heart Registry.
Christine GyldenkerneKevin Kw OlesenPernille G ThraneMorten MadsenTroels ThimMorten WürtzLisette O JensenBent RaungaardPer L PoulsenHans E BøtkerMichael MaengPublished in: Diabetes & vascular disease research (2020)
Diabetes patients without coronary artery disease by coronary angiography have a low risk of myocardial infarction, not substantially increased compared to patients with neither coronary artery disease nor diabetes. In the presence of coronary artery disease, however, diabetes increases the risk of myocardial infarction.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery disease
- type diabetes
- cardiovascular disease
- heart failure
- ejection fraction
- end stage renal disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- newly diagnosed
- glycemic control
- cardiovascular events
- left ventricular
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- atrial fibrillation
- aortic stenosis
- acute coronary syndrome
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement