The disparity between long-term survival in patients with and without diabetes following a first myocardial infarction did not change between 1989 and 2006: an analysis of 6,776 patients in the Northern Sweden MONICA Study
Diabetologia - Clinical and Experimental Diabetes and Metabolism, 08/15/2011
Eliasson M et al. – Long–term survival after a first MI is markedly lower in diabetic patients, especially among women, over an 18–year observation time. Although survival has improved in diabetic patients, the effect of diabetes upon mortality has not diminished.







