M MACE X DM

• This study examined long-term cardiac mortality in a cohort of 1948 patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) according to glycemic status (normal, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes). After 6.3 years of follow-up, the rates of cardiac death and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were similar between the participants with a normal glycemic status and the participants with prediabetes. Participants with type 2 diabetes had higher rates of cardiac death and MACE than the other two groups.

• The findings of this study indicate that prediabetes glycemic status does not appear to confer an increase in risk for cardiac death or MACE.