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Diabetes mellitus as a contributor to the in-hospital mortality after acute myocardial infarction in Kuwait.

Acta Cardiol

June 2004

Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat, Kuwait.

Objectives: First, to compare the in-hospital mortality after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among diabetic versus non-diabetic patients. Secondly, to evaluate if this association remains the same across gender and ethnic groups.

Methods And Results: We used a 1:2 individually matched retrospective case-control study.

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