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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 6, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(21):2491-2492; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl300
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Sweet and sour coronary heart disease: results from the China Heart Survey

Veikko Salomaa

KTL—National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, FI-00300 Helsinki, Finland

Corresponding author. Tel: +358 9 4744 8620; fax: +358 9 4744 8338. E-mail address: veikko.salomaa@ktl.fi

This editorial refers to ‘The relationship between coronary artery disease and abnormal glucose regulation in China: The China Heart Survey’{dagger} by D.-Y. Hu et al., on page 2573

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In 2002, Norhammar et al.1 published the results of the oral glucose tolerance testing (OGTT) of 181 consecutive patients admitted to the coronary care unit because of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and without previously known diabetes. Among these patients, previously unknown diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) were much more common than expected, 31 and 35%, respectively. Equally high prevalences were detected when the OGTT was repeated 3 months after the event. This finding was soon repeated in the large material of the Euro Heart Survey2 and also extended to the patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD). Of the 923 patients with an acute CHD event, 22% had newly detected diabetes and 36% IGT. Among the 997 patients with stable CHD, 14% had newly detected diabetes and 37% IGT.

It should be noted that 31% . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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