scholarly journals Association between anti-diabetes treatments and cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients with and without coronary artery disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Gyldenkerne ◽  
Kevin Kris Warnakula Olesen ◽  
Morten Madsen ◽  
Troels Thim ◽  
Lisette Okkels Jensen ◽  
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Objective: We examined the risk of myocardial infarction associated with glucose-lowering therapy among diabetes patients with and without obstructive coronary artery disease. Methods: A cohort of patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes (n = 12,030), who underwent coronary angiography from 2004 to 2012, were stratified by presence of obstructive (any stenosis ⩾50%) coronary artery disease and by type of diabetes treatment: diet, non-insulin treatment and insulin (±oral anti-diabetics). The primary endpoint was myocardial infarction. Adjusted hazard ratios were calculated using diet-treated patients without coronary artery disease as reference. Results: In patients without coronary artery disease, risk of myocardial infarction was similar in patients treated with non-insulin medication (adjusted hazard ratio 0.70, 95% confidence interval 0.27–1.81) and insulin (adjusted hazard ratio 0.76, 95% confidence interval 0.27–2.08) as compared to diet only. In patients with coronary artery disease, the risk of myocardial infarction was higher than in the reference group and an incremental risk was observed being lowest in patients treated with diet (adjusted hazard ratio 3.79, 95% confidence interval 1.61–8.88), followed by non-insulin medication (adjusted hazard ratio 5.42, 95% confidence interval 2.40–12.22), and highest in insulin-treated patients (adjusted hazard ratio 7.91, 95% confidence interval 3.51–17.82). Conclusion: The presence of obstructive coronary artery disease defines the risk of myocardial infarction in diabetes patients. Glucose-lowering therapy, in particular insulin, was associated with risk of myocardial infarction only in the presence of coronary artery disease.

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1863
Author(s):  
Jorge Rodríguez-Capitán ◽  
Andrés Sánchez-Pérez ◽  
Sara Ballesteros-Pradas ◽  
Mercedes Millán-Gómez ◽  
Rosa Cardenal-Piris ◽  
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The clinical significance of non-obstructive coronary artery disease is the subject of debate. Our objective was to evaluate the long-term cardiovascular prognosis associated with non-obstructive coronary artery disease in patients undergoing coronary angiography, and to conduct a stratification by sex, diabetes, and clinical indication. We designed a multi-centre retrospective longitudinal observational study of 3265 patients that were classified into three groups: normal coronary arteries (lesion <20%, 1426 patients), non-obstructive coronary artery disease (20–50%, 643 patients), and obstructive coronary artery disease (>70%, 1196 patients). During a mean follow-up of 43 months, we evaluated a combined cardiovascular event: acute myocardial infarction, stroke, hospitalization for heart failure, or cardiovascular death. Multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazard models showed a worse prognosis in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease, in comparison with patients of normal coronary arteries group, in the total population (hazard ratio 1.72, 95% confidence interval 1.23–2.39; p for trend <0.001), in non-diabetics (hazard ratio 2.12, 95% confidence interval: 1.40–3.22), in women (hazard ratio 1.75, 95% confidence interval 1.10–2.77), and after acute coronary syndrome (hazard ratio 2.07, 95% confidence interval 1.25–3.44). In conclusion, non-obstructive coronary artery disease is associated with an impaired long-term cardiovascular prognosis. This association held for non-diabetics, women, and after acute coronary syndrome.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Kris Warnakula Olesen ◽  
Morten Madsen ◽  
Christine Gyldenkerne ◽  
Pernille Gro Thrane ◽  
Troels Thim ◽  
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Abstract Background Diabetes patients without obstructive coronary artery disease as assessed by coronary angiography have a low risk of myocardial infarction, but their myocardial infarction risk may still be higher than the general population. We examined the 10-year risks of myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and death in diabetes patients without obstructive coronary artery disease according to coronary angiography, compared to risks in a matched general population cohort. Methods We included all diabetes patients without obstructive coronary artery disease examined by coronary angiography from 2003 to 2016 in Western Denmark. Patients were matched by age and sex with a cohort from the Western Denmark general population without a previous myocardial infarction or coronary revascularization. Outcomes were myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and death. Ten-year cumulative incidences were computed. Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) then were computed using stratified Cox regression with the general population as reference. Results We identified 5734 diabetes patients without obstructive coronary artery disease and 28,670 matched individuals from the general population. Median follow-up was 7 years. Diabetes patients without obstructive coronary artery disease had an almost similar 10-year risk of myocardial infarction (3.2% vs 2.9%, adjusted HR 0.93, 95% CI 0.72–1.20) compared to the general population, but had an increased risk of ischemic stroke (5.2% vs 2.2%, adjusted HR 1.87, 95% CI 1.47-2.38) and death (29.6% vs 17.8%, adjusted HR 1.24, 95% CI 1.13–1.36). Conclusions Patients with diabetes and no obstructive coronary artery disease have a 10-year risk of myocardial infarction that is similar to that found in the general population. However, they still remain at increased risk of ischemic stroke and death.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 147916412094180
Author(s):  
Christine Gyldenkerne ◽  
Kevin KW Olesen ◽  
Pernille G Thrane ◽  
Morten Madsen ◽  
Troels Thim ◽  
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Background: Diabetes is considered a risk factor for myocardial infarction. However, we have previously found that diabetes was not a short-term risk factor for myocardial infarction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Methods: We conducted a cohort study of patients undergoing coronary angiography from 2003 to 2012 and followed them by cross-linking Danish health registries. Patients were stratified according to coronary artery disease and diabetes. Endpoints included myocardial infarction, cardiac death, all-cause death and coronary revascularization. Results: 86,202 patients were included in total (diabetes: n = 12,652). Median follow-up was 8.8 years. Using patients with neither coronary artery disease nor diabetes as reference (cumulative myocardial infarction incidence 2.6%), the risk of myocardial infarction was low and not substantially increased for patients with diabetes alone (3.2%; hazard ratio 1.202, 95% confidence interval 0.996−1.451), was increased for patients with coronary artery disease alone (9.3%; hazard ratio 2.75, 95% confidence interval 2.52−3.01) and was highest for patients with both coronary artery disease and diabetes (12.3%; hazard ratio 3.79, 95% confidence interval 3.43−4.20). Similar associations were observed for cardiac death and coronary revascularization. Conclusion: Diabetes patients without coronary artery disease by coronary angiography have a low risk of myocardial infarction, not substantially increased compared to patients with neither coronary artery disease nor diabetes. In the presence of coronary artery disease, however, diabetes increases the risk of myocardial infarction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 2759
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Bryniarski ◽  
Pawel Gasior ◽  
Jacek Legutko ◽  
Dawid Makowicz ◽  
Anna Kedziora ◽  
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Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary artery disease (MINOCA) is a working diagnosis for patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction without obstructive coronary artery disease on coronary angiography. It is a heterogenous entity with a number of possible etiologies that can be determined through the use of appropriate diagnostic algorithms. Common causes of a MINOCA may include plaque disruption, spontaneous coronary artery dissection, coronary artery spasm, and coronary thromboembolism. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an intravascular imaging modality which allows the differentiation of coronary tissue morphological characteristics including the identification of thin cap fibroatheroma and the differentiation between plaque rupture or erosion, due to its high resolution. In this narrative review we will discuss the role of OCT in patients presenting with MINOCA. In this group of patients OCT has been shown to reveal abnormal findings in almost half of the cases. Moreover, combining OCT with cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) was shown to allow the identification of most of the underlying mechanisms of MINOCA. Hence, it is recommended that both OCT and CMR can be used in patients with a working diagnosis of MINOCA. Well-designed prospective studies are needed in order to gain a better understanding of this condition and to provide optimal management while reducing morbidity and mortality in that subset patients.


Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ara H Rostomian ◽  
Derek Q Phan ◽  
Mingsum Lee ◽  
Ray X Zadegan

Introduction: Myocardial Infarction with non-obstructive coronary artery disease (MINOCA) is found in 5%-6% of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). As such, the diagnosis and management of AMI patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease (NOCAD) poses a challenge as compared to patients with MI with coronary artery disease (MICAD). Hypothesis: To evaluate the characteristics and outcomes of MINOCA in older patients as compared with MICAD patients, with and without revascularization. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study of patients ≥80 years old who underwent invasive coronary angiography (ICA) for AMI between 2009-2019 at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. MINOCA was defied as <50% stenosis of coronary arteries on angiography with a troponin level ≥0.05 ng/ml. Patients with MINOCA vs MICAD were compared. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify independent predictors of MINOCA and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to analyze all-cause mortality between cohorts. Results: A total of 259 patients with MINOCA (mean ± SD age 83.8±2.7 years, 68% female) and 687 patients with MICAD (84.7±3.4 years, 40% female) were analyzed. Younger age (odds ratio [OR]=1.11; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.05-1.18), female sex (OR=3.14; CI=2.20-4.48), black race (OR=2.53; CI=1.61-3.98), no history of prior stroke (OR=1.56; CI=1.06-2.33), atrial fibrillation or flutter (OR=2.04; CI:1.38-3.02), lower troponin levels (OR=1.08; CI:1.03-1.11), and lower triglyceride levels per 10 mg/dl increments (OR=1.06; CI:1.03-1.11) increased the odds of having MINCOA as compared to MICAD. At median follow-up of 2.4 years, MINOCA was associated with a lower rate of death (44.8% vs 55.2%, p<0.01) compared to un-revascularized MICAD, but no difference (31.3% vs 40.4%, p=0.68) when compared to re-vascularized MICAD. Conclusions: Patients age ≥80 years with MINOCA have fewer traditional risk factors compared to their counterparts with MICAD and fewer deaths compared to un-revascularized MICAD, but similar mortality compared to revascularized MICAD


ESC CardioMed ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 2836-2840
Author(s):  
Martha Gulati

The more atypical presentation of women makes the diagnostic evaluation of symptomatic women challenging and results in more frequent referral for diagnostic testing to improve the precision of the ischaemic heart disease likelihood estimate. The classification of ischaemic heart disease and myocardial infarction has moved beyond the diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease and encompasses ischaemia that can occur in the presence and absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Consideration of the different pathophysiology of ischaemia that may occur in women needs to be considered in the evaluation and treatment of ischaemic heart disease in women.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1109-1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Hsin Chang ◽  
Chii-Min Hwu ◽  
Chia-Huei Chu ◽  
Justin G.S. Won ◽  
Harn-Shen Chen ◽  
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Objective: Upstroke time per cardiac cycle (UTCC) in the lower extremities has been found to be predictive of cardiovascular mortality in the general population. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to test the associations between increasing UTCC and outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: A total of 452 patients with type 2 diabetes (age, 67.5 ± 8.6 years; male, 54%) registered in a share-care program participated in the study at an outpatient clinic in Taipei Veterans General Hospital across a mean of 5.8 years. Primary outcomes were all-cause mortality hospitalization for coronary artery disease, stroke, revascularization, amputation, and diabetic foot syndrome. Secondary end-point outcome was all-cause mortality. Results: Increment of UTCC associations with primary and secondary outcomes were undertaken prior to baseline characteristic adjustments. A UTCC of 20.1% exhibited the greatest area under curve (AUC), sensitivity, and specificity balance to predict composite events in receiver operating curves (AUC, 0.63 [ P = .001]; sensitivity, 67.7%; specificity, 54.9%). Sixty-four composite events and 17 deaths were identified from medical records. UTCC ≥20.1% was associated with the occurrence of composite events and an increased risk of mortality. For composite events, an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 2.45 and 95% confidence interval (CI) of 1.38 to 4.35 ( P = .002) were calculated. For all-cause mortality, an adjusted HR of 1.91 and 95% CI of 0.33 to 10.99 ( P = .467) were calculated. Conclusion: Increasing UTCC was associated with cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes. Therefore, UTCC is advocated as a noninvasive screening tool for ambulatory patients with type 2 diabetes. Abbreviations: CAD = coronary artery disease; CI = confidence interval; eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate; HR = hazard ratio; PAD = peripheral artery disease; UTCC = upstroke time per cardiac cycle


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