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New diagnostic criteria for diabetes and coronary artery disease: insights from an angiographic study

François Ledru, MD^*, Pierre Ducimetière, PhD, Salvatore Battaglia, MD^*, Dominique Courbon, MsC, Fabrice Beverelli, MD^*, Louis Guize, MD^*, Jean-L.éon Guermonprez, MD^* and Benoît Diébold, MD^*

^* Cardiology Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
INSERM Unit 258, Villejuif, France

View larger version (31K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Distribution of coronary segments by severity grade and by categories of hyperglycemia. Patients are categorized according to the new criteria of the American Diabetes Association (1997): normal patients (fasting plasma glucose < 6.1 mM/L; n = 291); impaired fasting glucose (6.1 mM/L fasting plasma glucose < 7.0 mM/L; n = 82). Diabetic patients are subdivided into "mild" diabetes (no antidiabetic treatment and 7.0 mM/L fasting plasma glucose < 7.8 mM/L; n = 20) and WHO diabetes (already treated for diabetes or fasting plasma glucose 7.8 mM/L; n = 73). Severity grades are defined in the Methods section. NS for p > 0.05. WHO = World Health Organization.