Authors
Marco Dauriz, Giovanni Targher, Pier Luigi Temporelli, Donata Lucci, Lucio Gonzini, Gian Luigi Nicolosi, Roberto Marchioli, Gianni Tognoni, Roberto Latini, Franco Cosmi, Luigi Tavazzi, Aldo Pietro Maggioni
Publication date
2017/7/5
Journal
Journal of the American Heart Association
Volume
6
Issue
7
Pages
e005156
Description
Background
The independent prognostic impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) and prediabetes mellitus (pre‐DM) on survival outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure has been investigated in observational registries and randomized, clinical trials, but the results have been often inconclusive or conflicting. We examined the independent prognostic impact of DM and pre‐DM on survival outcomes in the GISSI‐HF (Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nella Insufficienza Cardiaca‐Heart Failure) trial.
Methods and Results
We assessed the risk of all‐cause death and the composite of all‐cause death or cardiovascular hospitalization over a median follow‐up period of 3.9 years among the 6935 chronic heart failure participants of the GISSI‐HF trial, who were stratified by presence of DM (n=2852), pre‐DM (n=2013), and non‐DM (n=2070) at baseline. Compared with non‐DM patients, those with DM had …
Scholar articles
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