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Frequency of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Conaway DG, O'Keefe JH, Reid KJ, Spertus J

Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's Hospital, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. conawayd@umkc.edu

In a prospective cohort of patients who had acute coronary syndrome, we used a simple fasting plasma glucose to identify previously unrecognized diabetes mellitus. A total of 57% of patients who had acute coronary syndrome had abnormal glucose metabolism; approximately 66% of those who met criteria for new diabetes were not diagnosed or treated as such by the physicians who managed them.

Published 1 August 2005 in Am J Cardiol, 96(3): 363-5.
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