Since the clinical course of acute myocardial infarction is highly variable, routine (and sometimes serial) echocardiographic studies may be needed in all patients to assess actual risks and to correct therapeutic strategy, but obtaining an echocardiogram in a patient with uncomplicated AMI must not delay reperfusion therapy.
Metabolic syndrome, that diabetes mellitus forms a part of was discovered by Dr Gerald Reaven's in 1988. Banting was honored by World Diabetes Day which is held on his birthday, November 14 staring 2007.t was known in the 17th century as the âpissing evilâ. The term diabetes was probably coined by Apollonius of Memphis around 250 BC. Diabetes is first recorded in English, in the form diabete, in a medical text written around 1425. It was in 1675 that Thomas Willis added the word â'mellitus'â to the word diabetes.
Main article: Coronary disease. The approximate prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) is 50%, with a prevalence of 37% in patients with premature coronary artery disease (age 45), particularly in women.