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Články z ScienceDailyOnset Of Diabetes Higher In Patients Who Have Had Heart Attacks

4. 9 2007 (11:00)

People who have had heart attacks are at higher risk of developing both new-onset diabetes and the pre-diabetes condition impaired fasting glucose (IFG), conclude authors of a recent article. Patients with a recent heart attack were up to four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes (3.7%) compared with the general population (0.8-1.6%), and more than 15 times more likely to develop IFG (27.5% versus 1.5%).