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Blood sugar control impacts stroke risk

Impaired glucose tolerance, a precursor to full-blown diabetes, is associated with an increased risk of stroke in non-diabetic patients who have already experienced a minor or mini-stroke, Dutch researchers report.

Symptoms of a mini-stroke, known medically as a transient ischemic attack (TIA), are exactly the same as those of a full-fledged stroke, but resolve within 24 hours. While TIAs in themselves cause no long-term problems, they substantially increase the likelihood of having a full-fledged stroke soon afterwards.

Impaired glucose tolerance has been linked to stroke in patients with coronary artery disease. However, it was unclear if this metabolic derangement increased the risk in patients with a prior TIA or minor stroke.

Dr. Sarah E. Vermeer, from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, and colleagues assessed the impact of glucose tolerance on stroke risk in 3,127 patients with a prior TIA or minor stroke.

During an average of 2.6 follow-up, 272 patients developed a stroke and 200 patients experienced heart attack or cardiac death.

An 80 percent increased stroke risk was seen in patients with impaired glucose tolerance. Patients with excessively low glucose levels also had a 50 percent greater risk than did those with normal glucose levels.

The biggest risk of stroke -- a nearly threefold increased risk compared with normal glucose levels -- was in patients with overt diabetes.

By contrast, the glucose levels seemed to have no bearing on the risk of heart attack or heart-related death, the report indicates.

"Intensive glucose control in both type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients seems to reduce stroke and other macrovascular events," the authors state. "New secondary prevention trials should be initiated to investigate whether intensive glucose control reduces stroke incidence in these patients."

SOURCE: Stroke June 2006.

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In-hospital beta-blocker aids heart failure

Patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) appear to have better outcomes if they are treated with beta-blockers prior to, during, and after the hospitalization, investigators report.

HF is the progressive inability of the heart to pump enough blood to support vital organs and often leads to a buildup of fluid, causing swollen legs and arms, fatigue and eventually excess fluid in the lungs and severe life-threatening shortness of breath. Standard treatment includes diuretics. Previous research has demonstrated the safety of starting a beta-blocker for patients with HF, but those studies tended to include outpatients.

Dr. Javed Butler, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and his associates performed a post-hoc analysis of a large trial that included 432 HF patients.

A total of 268 patients were on beta-blockers at admission, but these were discontinued during hospitalization in 54. In all, 263 survived to discharge, with 209 prescribed a beta-blocker upon discharge.

Patients on preadmission beta-blocker therapy had a shorter length of stay and lower 180-day mortality rate, the team reports in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. After adjusting for patient characteristics and predictors of mortality, there remained a trend toward lower 180-day mortality.

The authors then compared outcomes for those on beta-blockers when admitted and when discharged, versus those in whom beta-blocker therapy was stopped before discharge. Those who continued the drugs had a lower rate of hospitalization or death at day 180.

Comparing patients discharged on beta-blocker therapy and those not, the 180-day death or rehospitalization rate was 59 percent versus 69 percent.

Thus, the data indicate that beta-blocker use before, during and after hospitalization was safe and associated with better outcomes, Butler's group indicates.

SOURCE: Journal of the American College of Cardiology

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