Research has shown that people who have suffered from myocardial infarction have an increased risk of developing metabolic diseases such as heart failure and diabetes.

According to Medical Express, a foreign medical news outlet, on the 18th (local time), a research team at the University of Leeds in the UK obtained these results by analyzing the medical records of patients aged 18 or older who received hospital treatment between 2008 and 2017. This study was also published in the latest issue of the international academic journal ‘PLoS Medicine’.

The research team used data from 433,361 people hospitalized for myocardial infarction who were hospitalized and retreated for 11 non-fatal diseases over a 9-year period. Their average age was 67 years old and their sex ratio was 66% male, and the research team compared them with 2,001,310 control subjects without a history of myocardial infarction by matching them in age and gender.

As a result, the myocardial infarction group had significantly higher incidence rates of 11 diseases, including heart failure, renal failure, atrial fibrillation, stroke, peripheral artery disease, severe bleeding, type 2 diabetes, and depression, than the control group.

In particular, heart failure occurred in 29.6% of patients who had myocardial infarction, but only 9.8% of the control group occurred, a three-fold difference. Renal failure was also 27.2% in the myocardial infarction group and 19.8% in the control group, a difference of 7.4 percentage points (P).

In addition, the incidence of atrial fibrillation in the myocardial infarction group and the control group was 22.3% and 16.8%, respectively, and the incidence of diabetes was 17% and 14.3%.

Severe bleeding occurred in 19% of the myocardial infarction group and 18.4% of the control group, cerebrovascular disease occurred in 12.5% ​​of the myocardial infarction group and 11.6% of the control group, and peripheral artery disease occurred in 6.5% of the myocardial infarction group and 4.06% of the control group.

In the case of depression, the myocardial infarction group was 8.9% and the control group was 6%, which was 2.9% higher. In terms of gender comparison, the risk of depression was greater for women than for men, and the incidence of depression among young women under 40 years of age at the time of myocardial infarction was 21.5%, 10% higher than that of men at 11.5%.

However, in this study, the cancer incidence rate in the myocardial infarction group was lower at 13.5% than in the control group at 21.5%. Regarding this, the research team said, “It is not clear whether there is a special reason, so additional research is needed.” However, the incidence of vascular dementia was slightly higher in the myocardial infarction group at 2.3% than in the control group at 2.1%.