Unique role of admission hyperglycemia on myocardial infarction size and area at risk following an acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

• Main Authors: Taghreed Sayed Meshref (Author), Mahmoud Aly Ashry (Author), Refaat Fathi Abd El-Aal (Author), Hisham Mostafa Imam (Author), Dina Ali Hamad (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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, i...