[Myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes: comparative series of 85 patients with 16 patients without diabetes].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics, treatment and development of myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes.

Methods: From September 1999 through December 2003, 191 patients with myocardial infarction were hospitalized in the cardiology department of the Mohamed V military teaching hospital in Rabat, Morocco. They included 85 patients with diabetes (D) and 106 without it (ND).