The impact of diabetes mellitus and hypertension on clinical outcomes in a population of Iranian patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention: A retrospective cohort study

There are heterogeneous data regarding the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HTN) on clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). This study explored the effect of history of DM (hDM) and HTN (hHTN), separately and in combination with each other, on major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in short‐, mid‐, and long‐term intervals after PCI. Between 2000 and 2017, 1799 patients who had PCI were registered. They were categorized in four different groups: hDM, hHTN, hDM + hHTN, and no hDMQuery no hHTN. Incidence of myocardial infarction, revascularization, and coronary death totally considered as MACE was sought in short‐ (<24 hours), mid‐ (24 hours up to 6 months), and long‐term (more than 6 months) intervals after PCI. Among the subjects, 176 had hDM, 648 had hHTN, 370 had hDM + hHTN, and 605 were in no hDM no hHTN group. The median follow‐up time was 66.5 months. Time‐to‐event (time to the first MACE) was not significantly different between four groups. hHTN group was older and hDM group was younger at the time of enrollment PCI. Female gender was dominant only in hDM + hHTN group. Of the total, 130 patients (7.22%) experienced MACE. There was no MACE in short term, 23.07% of the MACEs were in mid‐term, and the remaining happened in long term. However, according to the rate ratio, incidence rate of MACE in mid‐tem was significantly higher than the long term. Also, MACE occurrence was significantly higher in hDM + hHTN and hHTN groups than the no hDM no hHTN group. Our study showed that the history of HTN significantly increases post‐PCI MACE rather than the history of DM. Having history of both DM and HTN synergistically raised MACE incidence. Incidence of MACE per month was higher in mid‐term than the long‐term interval.