Impact of diabetes on epicardial reperfusion and mortality in a contemporary STEMI population undergoing mechanical reperfusion: Insights from the ISACS STEMI COVID 19 registry

Giuseppe De Luca*, Magdy Algowhary, Berat Uguz, Dinaldo C Oliveira, Vladimir Ganyukov, Zan Zimbakov, Miha Cercek, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Poay Huan Loh, Lucian Calmac, Gerard Roura I Ferrer, Alexandre Quadros, Marek Milewski, Fortunato Scotto D'Uccio, Clemens von Birgelen, Francesco Versaci, Jurrien Ten Berg, Gianni Casella, Aaron Wong Sung Lung, Petr KalaJosé Luis Díez Gil, Xavier Carrillo, Maurits Dirksen, Victor M Becerra-Munoz, Michael Kang-Yin Lee, Dafsah Arifa Juzar, Rodrigo de Moura Joaquim, Roberto Paladino, Davor Milicic, Periklis Davlouros, Nikola Bakraceski, Filippo Zilio, Luca Donazzan, Adriaan Kraaijeveld, Gennaro Galasso, Lux Arpad, Marinucci Lucia, Guiducci Vincenzo, Maurizio Menichelli, Alessandra Scoccia, Aylin Hatice Yamac, Kadir Ugur Mert, Xacobe Flores Rios, Tomas Kovarnik, Michal Kidawa, Josè Moreu, Vincent Flavien, Enrico Fabris, Iñigo Lozano Martínez-Luengas, Francisco Bosa Ojeda, Robert Rodríguez-Sanchez, Gianluca Caiazzo, Giuseppe Cirrincione, Hsien-Li Kao, Juan Sanchis Forés, Luigi Vignali, Helder Pereira, Stephane Manzo, Santiago Ordoñez, Alev Arat Özkan, Bruno Scheller, Heidi Lehtola, Rui Teles, Christos Mantis, Ylitalo Antti, João António Brum Silveira, Rodrigo Zoni, Ivan Bessonov, Stefano Savonitto, George Kochiadakis, Dimitrios Alexopulos, Carlos E Uribe, John Kanakakis, Benjamin Faurie, Gabriele Gabrielli, Alejandro Gutierrez Barrios, Juan Pablo Bachini, Alex Rocha, Frankie Chor-Cheung Tam, Alfredo Rodriguez, Antonia Anna Lukito, Anne Bellemain-Appaix, Gustavo Pessah, Giuliana Cortese, Guido Parodi, Mohammed Abed Burgadha, Elvin Kedhi, Pablo Lamelas, Harry Suryapranata, Matteo Nardin, Monica Verdoia

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Abstract

Background and aim: Diabetes has been shown in last decades to be associated with a significantly higher mortality among patients with ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with primary PCI (PPCI). Therefore, the aim of current study was to evaluate the impact of diabetes on times delays, reperfusion and mortality in a contemporary STEMI population undergoing PPCI, including treatment during the COVID pandemic. Methods and results: The ISACS-STEMI COVID-19 is a large-scale retrospective multicenter registry involving PPCI centers from Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia and North-Africa, including patients treated from 1st of March until June 30, 2019 and 2020. Primary study endpoint of this analysis was in-hospital mortality. Secondary endpoints were postprocedural TIMI 0–2 flow and 30-day mortality. Our population is represented by 16083 STEMI patients. A total of 3812 (23,7 %) patients suffered from diabetes. They were older, more often males as compared to non-diabetes. Diabetic patients were less often active smokers and had less often a positive family history of CAD, but they were more often affected by hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, with higher prevalence of previous STEMI and previous CABG. Diabetic patients had longer ischemia time, had more often anterior MI, cardiogenic shock, rescue PCI and multivessel disease. They had less often out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and in-stent thrombosis, received more often a mechanical support, received less often a coronary stent and DES. Diabetes was associated with a significantly impaired postprocedural TIMI flow (TIMI 0–2: 9.8 % vs 7.2 %, adjusted OR [95 % CI] = 1.17 [1.02–1.38], p = 0.024) and higher mortality (in-hospital: 9.1 % vs 4.8 %, Adjusted OR [95 % CI] = 1.70 [1.43–2.02], p < 0.001; 30-day mortality: 10.8 % vs 6 %, Adjusted HR [95 % CI] = 1.46 [1.26–1.68], p < 0.001) as compared to non-diabetes, particularly during the pandemic. Conclusions: Our study showed that in a contemporary STEMI population undergoing PPCI, diabetes is significantly associated with impaired epicardial reperfusion that translates into higher in-hospital and 30-day mortality, particularly during the pandemic.

Original languageEnglish
Article number103763
Number of pages9
JournalNMCD : Nutrition metabolism and cardiovascular diseases
Volume35
Issue number5
Early online date24 Oct 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2025

Keywords

  • COVID
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • PCI
  • ST-Segment myocardial infarction

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