Response to Comment on Shore et al. Association Between Hyperglycemia at Admission During Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Subsequent Diabetes: Insights From the Veterans Administration Cardiac Care Follow-up Clinical Study. Diabetes Care 2014;37:409–418

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We thank Meloni et al. (1) for sharing their observations with us. As their study closely agrees with ours (2) in a different patient population, it reinforces the importance of identifying admission hyperglycemia as a possible marker of previously unrecognized or incident diabetes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Prior studies have shown the high …