Malgorzata Bartnik

TL;DR: Guidelines and Expert Consensus documents aim to present management and recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians to select the best possible management strategies for the individual patient, suffering from a specific condition, taking into account not only the impact on outcome, but also the risk benefit ratio of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

TL;DR: This survey demonstrates that normal glucose regulation is less common than abnormal glucose regulation in patients with CAD and the knowledge of glucometabolic state among these patients should influence their future management because it has great potential to improve the outcome.

TL;DR: The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular diseases of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes shows clear trends in survival and morbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes.

TL;DR: Abnormal glucose tolerance is a strong risk factor for future cardiovascular events after myocardial infarction and since it is common and possible to detect even during the hospital phase it is a target for novel secondary preventive efforts.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that patients with CAD and known diabetes are at high risk for mortality and cardiovascular events and demonstrated that Patients with newly diagnosed diabetes areat intermediate risk for adverse outcomes.