In patients hospitalized for myocardial infarction, there are limited data examining the long-term prognostic effect of diabetes. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate the development of diabetes as an independent long-term prognostic factor after myocardial infarction.
Prospective follow-up of 6676 consecutive MI patients screened for entry in the Trandolapril Cardiac Evaluation (TRACE) study. The patients were analysed by Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, landmark analysis and Cox proportional hazard models and outcome measure was all-cause mortality.
The mortality in patients with diabetes was 82,7% at 10 years of follow-up and 91,1% at 15 years of follow-up, while patients without diabetes had a mortality of 60,2% at 10 years of follow-up and 72,9% at 15 years of follow-up (p