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Cardiology



Diabetes increases risk of in-hospital mortality in women with acute coronary syndrome



December 22nd, 2005

Diabetes increases the risk of in-hospital mortality in women with acute coronary syndrome, but not in men.

Scientists in Sweden conducted a study to investigate "clinical presentation, in-hospital course and short-term prognosis in men and women with diabetes mellitus and acute coronary syndromes (ACS)."

"Men (n=6,488, 21.2% with diabetes) and 2,809 women (28.7% with diabetes) {{<=}}80 years old, with a discharge diagnosis of ACS were prospectively enrolled in the Euro Heart Survey of ACS."

A. Dotevall and colleagues noted, "Women with diabetes were more likely to present with ST elevation than nondiabetic women, a difference...


Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-22)

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