[Level of glycemia as a marker of prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation].

High mortality of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) determines pursuit of novel markers of risk as well as predictors of development of unfavorable outcome. The question of the role glycemia in development of cardiovascular complications in patients with acute coronary syndrome remains open. Analysis of in hospital mortality revealed U-shaped relacion ship between level of glycemia at admission and mortality in patients with ST elevation MI combined with diabetes mellitus (DM), and presence of direct linear relation - in patients without DM. Episodes of hypoglycemia registered in patients with MI and DM at hospital stage of treatment do not determine in hospital prognosis, but allow to distinguish a group of patients with unfavorable course of remote postinfarction period.