Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Editorial
Impaired glucose tolerance a new risk factor?
Heart and Diabetes Center, North-Rhine Westfalia, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
* Correspondence to: Dr. Diethelm Tschöpe, Heart and Diabetes Center, North-Rhine Wetsfalia, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (E-mail: diethelm.tschoepe@ruhr-uni-bochum.de).
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This editorial refers to "Newly detected abnormal glucose tolerance: an important predictor of long term outcome after myocandial infarction"
by M. Bartnik on page 1990.
Recently, a plethora of scientific papers have revealed the parallel impairment of carbohydrate metabolism in patients referred to hospitals along with acute ischaemic events.1 The most recent, the Euro Heart Survey, reports the
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