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Diabetes
Letter
Long-term excess mortality associated with diabetes following acute myocardial infarction: a population-based cohort study
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Alabas et al1 recently published a study in your journal on the long-term excess mortality associated with diabetes following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after adjustment for comorbidity, risk factors and cardiovascular treatments. Diabetes was independently associated with a 56% higher mortality following STEMI and 39% following NSTEMI than in patients with AMI without diabetes. The study was …
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