Diabetes mellitus and the clinical and angiographic outcome after coronary stent placement
Shpend Elezi, MDa,
Adnan Kastrati, MDa,
J.ürgen Pache, MDa,
Anne Wehinger, MDa,
Martin Hadamitzky, MDa,
Josef Dirschinger, MDa,
Franz-Josef Neumann, MDa and
Albert Schömig, MDa
a Deutsches Herzzentrum and 1. Medizinische Klinik rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

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Figure 1 Survival curves for freedom from myocardial infarction for diabetic and nondiabetic patients.
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Figure 2 Event-free survival curves for diabetic and nondiabetic patients. Death, myocardial infarction and target lesion revascularization were considered as adverse events.
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Figure 3 Graph displaying the interaction between diabetes and vessel size on the probability of restenosis as obtained from the multivariate logistic model. The relation of vessel size and the probability of restenosis is nonlinear. Dots surrounding the lines represent each individual vessel aligned according to the respective probability for restenosis.
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