IJCS | Volume 32, Nº2, March/April 2019

173 Figure 7 - Outcome of CA in AMI patients comparing young and older AMI patients. Lei & Bin Differences of risk factors in young AMI patients Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2019;32(2)163-176 Review Article Thus, the early diagnosis of hypertension and effective medical intervention may reduce AMI in young people. Many studies reported that non-diabetic AMI patients have increased blood sugar, compromised glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. 46,47 Yunyun et al., 12 found that many young patients had a higher baseline fasting blood sugar and HbA1c levels, suggesting that a higher proportion of young AMI patients had undetectable diabetes or pre-diabetes. Yunyun et al 12 also found that the HbA1c level was an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction in young patients. So, the early identification of young people with diabetes