"relationship between the disorders of glucose metabolism and ischemic heart diseases"

a study of the relationship between the disorder of glucose metabolism and ischemic heart disease was performed on 122 patients and 100 controls in loghman-dowleh adham’s medical center in tehran. the gtt abnormality was found in only 8% of the control group while for the patients with the heart ischemia the prevalence was 62.3%. prevalence of glucose metabolic disorder among men with acute myocardial infarction was 72% and among men with acute coronary insufficiency was 50%, but there was no significant difference in the prevalence of gtt disorder among women for these two diseases. the prevalence of the gtt disorder was 73% among obese patients while the rate was 50% among patients with normal weights. the causal relationship between glucose tolerance abnormality and ischemic heart disease is discussed.