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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2, 5–6 (1 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0060

Patients more at risk of developing type 2 diabetes after first myocardial infarction

Marie Lofthouse

Pajunen P et al. (2005) Five-year risk of developing clinical diabetes after first myocardial infarction; the FINAMI study. Diabet Med 22: 1334–1337 A recent study by Pajunen et al. has concluded that many patients who have not been previously diagnosed with diabetes will develop diabetes within 5 years of their first myocardial infarction (MI).