Diabetes and Mortality in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Findings from the Gulf COAST Registry

The prevalence of traditional risk factors such as diabetes mellitus (DM) and obesity are increasing in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Furthermore, outcomes after ACS are worse in patients with DM. The high prevalence of DM and an early age at onset of ACS have been described in prior publications from the Gulf Coast Database.We aimed to define the effect of DM on total mortality following ACS presentation at 30-days and 1 year...