Infarto agudo del miocardio en diabéticos relacionado con factores de riesgo Hospital Universitario Dr. Enrique Cabrera (2002-2004)

introduction: atherosclerosis is a complex multifactorial disease of multiple processes and factors that could be either enviromental or genetics. diabetic patients with myocardial infarction have a bigger risk of mor tality. material and methods: it was carried out a retrospective and descriptive study in 229 patients who came out from intensive therapy with myocardial infarction diagnosis during the period 2002-2004. records were analyzed to characterize people who suffered from heart attacks either diabetic or not according to the behaviour of the risk factors. their clinical records were also checked. results: masculine sex prevailed in the non diabetic group of patients with 65,3%, however, femenine sex prevailed among diabetic patients in both types:1 and 2 with 60% and 79,4% respectively. the group of patients over 60 years old was the most affected, corresponding 55,13% to diabetic type 2. from this sample of patients with myocardial infarction diagnosis a 79,4% of the smokers group were not diabetics but there was a 90% of diabetics type 1 and a 78,3% of smokers who were diabetic type 2. there was 80% of diabetic patients with high blood pressure(130/85) and 84,6% of diabetics type 2 had three or more risk factors for infarction. permanency in the hospital of diabetic type 2 patients was over 11 days in the 74,1% of the cases.( from 11 to 19 days 24,1% and 20 days or more 50%). non diabetics stayed at the hospital less than 10 days in a 35,8% of the cases. conclusions: female sex and age group over 60 years prevailed among the most affected. hypertension and smoking habit were the most predominant risk factors in patients with myocardial infarction.