Trends in the Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Patients with Myocardial Infarction in the South of Iran: 2008 to 2014

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Management ofrisk factors and the other prevention services in recent years lead to a significant decrease in AMI incidence. However, to examine the successof those strategies to control diabetes, this study aimed to identify the trends in prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with myocardialinfarction from 2008 to 2014.Methods: A descriptive study was conducted in 2015 in the Shahid Mohammadi hospital of Bandar Abbas, Iran and records of 150 myocardialinfarction patients hospitalized between March 2008 and March 2014 were randomly selected. A two part checklist was used to collectinformation from records: part one for demographic characteristics including smoking, marital status and their employment and part two forspecialized data including fasting blood glucose and history of heart disease.Results: No significant oriented difference was observed in the prevalences of diabetes in the examined years. However, the prevalence ofdiabetes among MI patients increased for the years 2008-2010. Thereafter, a downward slope was detected in the years 2010 to 2013.Prevalence of diabetes indicated a statistically significant relationship with smoking and history of heart disorders in myocardial infarctionpatients (P value= 0.002, P value= 0.013 respectively).Conclusions: According to the results, we can conclude that the managements and prevention methods used to control diabetes as a risk factorfor cardiovascular disease, were relatively successful in recent years (2010 to 2013) and this trend was in relationship with smoking and alsohistory of heart disease in population study.

کلیدواژه ها:

Myocardial infarction ، Diabetes mellitus ، Prevalence