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Glucose-lowering therapy after myocardial infarction: more questions than answers
Universität zu Lübeck, Medizinische Klinik II, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
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This editorial refers to ‘The impact of glucose-lowering treatment on long-term prognosis in patients with type 2 diabetes and myocardial infarction: a report from the DIGAMI 2 trial’
‘Glucose lowering treatment in patients with coronary artery disease is prognostically important not only in established but also in newly detected diabetes mellitus: a report from the Euro Heart Survey on Diabetes and the Heart’ by M. Alselmino et al.,
by L.G. Mellbin et al., on page 166 and 
on page 177
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doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm518 
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm519
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The DIGAMI I study demonstrated in 620 diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction that insulin–glucose infusion followed by multidose subcutaneous insulin decreases long-term mortality as compared with standard therapy.1 About 10 years later, the DIGAMI II study reported on 1253 diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction allocated to three treatment arms including acute insulin–glucose infusion followed by insulin-based long-term glucose control (group 1), insulin–glucose infusion followed by standard glucose control (group 2), and routine metabolic management according to local practice (group 3).2 Surprisingly, neither all-cause mortality nor morbidity (stroke and non-fatal reinfarctions) differed between the three groups.2 Mellbin
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