Progress with diabetic patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

See doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2003.11.002 for the article to which thiseditorial refers A revolution has taken place. We are witnessing a time whenmedical intervention is quantitatively improving the clinicaloutcomes of diabetic patients. As physicians we knew that diabeticpatients had a worse natural history than non-diabetics. Asinterventional cardiologists, we knew that diabetic patientssuffer from much higher restenosis