Which is worst in patients undergoing primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction? Hyperglycaemia? Diabetes mellitus? Or both?
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2010Author
Ergelen, MehmetUyarel, Hüseyin
Çicek, Gökhan
Işık, Turgay
Osmonov, Damirbek
Günaydın, Zeki Yüksel
Bozbay, Mehmet
Türer, Ayça
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Objective - The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of admission hyperglycaemia and/or diabetes mellitus (DM) on the outcomes of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Methods - 2482 consecutive patients with STEMI (mean age 56.5 +/- 11.9, years, 2064 men) undergoing primary PCI between October 2003 and March 2008 were retrospectively enrolled into the present study. Hyperglycaemia was defined as a venous plasma glucose level >= 200 mg/dl on admission. Patients were classified into four groups: non-diabetic/non-hyperglycaemic (NDNH, n = 1806) patients; diabetic/non-hyperglycaemic (DNH, n = 271) patients; non-diabetic/hyperglycaemic (NDH, n = 64); and diabetic/hyperglycaemic (DH, n = 341).
Results - In-hospital mortality was higher in NDH (12.5%) compared to DH (8.5%), DNH (6.3%), and NDNH (0.9%) patients (P < 0.001). The composite end points including death, reinfarction, and target-vessel revascularization (major adverse cardiac events [MACE]) in the hospital were also higher in NDH (18.8%) compared with other patients (DH, 13.8% vs. DNH, 10.3% vs. NDNH, 3.7%, P < 0.001). The median follow-up time was 21 months. The Kaplan-Meier survival plot for long-term cardiovascular death was worst for DH patients (log rank P < 0.001). After adjustment for potentially confounding factors, NDH (OR 3.04, 95% CI 1.06-8.73; P = 0.03), and DH (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.29-4.09; P = 0.005), but not DNH (OR 1.22, 95% CI 0.57-2.6; P = 0.6) status, remained independent predictors of long-term cardiovascular mortality.
Conclusions - STEMI patients with NDH represent the highest risk population for in-hospital mortality, and MACE. The worst outcomes for long-term cardiovascular mortality occur in DH patients.