1. Association of diabetes mellitus with clinical outcomes in patients with different coronary artery stenosis
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Hui-Wen Zhang, Jing-Lu Jin, Ye-Xuan Cao, Yuan-Lin Guo, Na-Qiong Wu, Cheng-Gang Zhu, Rui-Xia Xu, Qian Dong, and Jian-Jun Li
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Diabetes mellitus ,Coronary artery stenosis ,Cardiovascular events ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,RC666-701 - Abstract
Abstract Background It has been demonstrated that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. However, little is known regarding the long-term prognosis in diabetic patients who experience mild-to-intermediate coronary artery stenosis (CAS). This study was to assess the clinical outcomes of diabetic patients with different severity of CAS. Methods We consecutively enrolled 10,940 patients hospitalized due to angina-like chest pain and followed up for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) covering cardiac death, myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, unplanned coronary revascularization and angina-related hospitalization. According to coronary angiography, patients were divided into non-obstructive CAS (NOCAS,
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- 2021
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