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DIABETES MELLITUS AND MYOCARDIAL INF ARCTION
Author(s) -
BAILEY R. R.,
BEAVEN D. W.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1968.17.4.312
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , myocardial infarction , cardiology , infarction , mortality rate , endocrinology
SUMMARY Established diabetes mellitus was present in 6% of men and 12% of women (total for both sexes 8%) in a series of 500 consecutive patients admitted to hospital with proven myocardial infarction. As the local adult community diabetes prevalence rate only amounts to 4 % among New Zealanders of European descent, the presence of an increased proneness to myocardial infarction among diabetics is suggested. When the present group of patients with diabetes mellitus was carefully matched against a group of non‐diabetic controls who also had myocardial infarction, there was found to be a significantly higher 48‐hour hospital mortality rate in the former group. A history of previous cardiac failure, hypertension and myocardial infarction was also significantly more frequent among the diabetic patients, as was an episode of painless infarction.