Diabetes is associated with increased myocardial infarction risk regardless of coronary artery disease status: a 15-year follow-up study
Prior studies with shorter follow-up have suggested that diabetes may not confer additional myocardial infarction (MI) risk in patients without coronary artery disease (CAD) as confirmed by coronary angiography - suggesting that CAD, rather than diabetes alone, drives MI risk in patients with diabetes. To...