Coronary Heart Disease Admission Hyperglycemia Predicts Inhospital Mortality and Major Adverse Cardiac Events After Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients Without Diabetes mellitus

Admission hyperglycemia is associated with high inhospital and long-term adverse events in patients that undergo primary per-cutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We aimed to evaluate whether hyperglycemia predicts inhospital mortality. We prospec-tively analyzed 503 consecutive patients. The patients were divided into tertiles according to the admission glucose levels. Tertil