Cardiovascular Diabetology BioMed Central Original investigation Silent myocardial infarction in women with impaired glucose

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.284.9569

© 2003 Lundblad and Eliasson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL. Background: Patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is independent of traditional risk factors. Hence, slightly elevated glucose levels, even in the non-diabetic range, might be associated with increased macrovascular disease. Methods: Within the Northern Sweden MONICA project a population survey was performed in 1986. Electrocardiograms (ECG's) were recorded for half of the survey (n = 790) and oral glucose test was carried out in 78 % of those. The association between subjects with ECG's indicating previously unknown myocardial infarction (ukMI), IGT and conventional risk factors were analyzed by logistic regression for men and women separately, adjusting for age, smoking, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. Results: Impaired glucose tolerance was significantly more common among women with ukMI, but not in men, compared to the group with normal ECG. In men, no variable was significantly