Journal article
Relationship of glucose and insulin levels to the risk of myocardial infarction: a case-control study
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between dysglycemia and myocardial infarction in nondiabetic individuals.
BACKGROUND: Nondiabetic hyperglycemia may be an important cardiac risk factor. The relationship between myocardial infarction and glucose, insulin, abdominal obesity, lipids and hypertension was therefore studied in South Asians-a group at high risk for coronary heart disease and diabetes.
Authors
Gerstein HC; Pais P; Pogue J; Yusuf S
Journal
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 612–619
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
March 1999
DOI
10.1016/s0735-1097(98)00637-8
ISSN
0735-1097