Abstract:Background
Hyperglycemia can adversely affect patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients. The majority of the studies had investigated the impact of admission hyperglycemia (AH) on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality while, in ours, we entailed its impact on final infarction size (FIS) and more interestingly, on the area at risk (AAR), both were estimated by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging.
Results
AH showed significant positive corre… Show more
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