Impaired glucose metabolism predicts mortality after a myocardial infarction

Diabetes is a risk factor for increased mortality after a myocardial infarction. Whether this applies for patients with hyperglycemia during the acute phase of a acute myocardial infarction is unclear. Therefore we determined the relation between admission plasma glucose level and mortality in a prospectively collected series of 336 consecutive AMI patients. Patients were divided in four groups based on WHO criteria for glucose levels: I: 11.1 mmol/l. The mortality was higher in diabetic patients than in non-diabetic patients (40 vs. 16%; P