Kalevi Pyörälä

TL;DR: In insulin-dependent diabetic patients without nephropathy and CHD, the lipid and lipoprotein levels do not differ from nondiabetic controls, but in IDD patients with CHD the lipid-lipoprotein pattern is similar to that known to be characteristic for nondi diabetic patients withCHD.

TL;DR: Differences in serum lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus persisted after adjustment for body mass index, alcohol intake, physical activity, smoking, and hypertension, which suggests that the atherogenic serum lipoprotein pattern in NIDDM is an inherent feature of the disease.

TL;DR: The FINMONICA diagnostic criteria for AMI are closer to clinical diagnostic classification and offer a possibility for a more detailed classification of acute CHD events than the original MONICA criteria.

TL;DR: Persons with diabetes but no prior MI and persons with prior MI but no diabetes had a markedly greater risk of a coronary event than persons without diabetes and without prior MI.

TL;DR: During a 20-month study period there were 373 strokes in a geographically defined population (235/100,000/year) and the recurrence rate was 6% during the first year after any stroke.