Abstract
The present study was aimed at determining the impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) on postoperative bioprosthetic structural valve degeneration. Twelve Italian centers participated in the study. Patient data refer to bioprosthetic implantations performed from November 1988 to December 2009, which resulted in 6184 patients (mean age 71.3±5.4 years, 60.1% male) being enrolled. Of these patients, 1731 (27.9%) had type 2 DM. The propensity score-matching algorithm successfully matched 1113 patients with type 2 DM with the same number of no-DM patients. The postmatching standard differences were less than 0.1 for each of the covariates, and 64.2% of DM patients were matched. The early (30 days) mortality rate was 7.8% (n=87) versus 2.9% (n=33) in patients with or without type 2 DM (P
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 604-614 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Circulation |
Volume | 125 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 31 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physiology (medical)
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine