Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental
Volume 44, Issue 8 , Pages 1016-1027 , August 1995

Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery are at high risk of impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus during the first postoperative year

  • M. Farrer

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint request to M. Farrer, BSc, MB BS, Academic Department of Caridiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE7 7DN.
    • Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, The University of Newcastle Tyne, New Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • G. Fulcher

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, The University of Newcastle Tyne, New Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • C.J. Albers

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, The University of Newcastle Tyne, New Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • H.A.W. Neil

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, The University of Newcastle Tyne, New Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • P.C. Adams

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, The University of Newcastle Tyne, New Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
    • ,
  • K.G.M.M. Alberti

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Cardiology and Medicine, The University of Newcastle Tyne, New Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Received 1 July 1994 ,Accepted 20 October 1994.

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☆ The British Heart Foundation, and the British Diabetic Association.

☆☆ M.F. was the recipient of a Wellcome Junior Clinical Research Fellowship.

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