Free radical oxidation of blood proteins in patients with diabetes mellitus and myocardial infarction

Oxidative Modification of Blood Proteins [OMBP] has been studied in 65 patients with Diabetes. Mellitus [DM] and Myocardial Infarction [MI]. It has been shown that both DM and MI patients have increased levels of OMBP as compared to healthy persons. Diabetic patients had significantly higher levels and slower dynamics of OMBP than non-diabetic patients did during 14 days after onset of Acute MI. These data suggest that Oxidative Modification of proteins is a possible factor contributing to the poorer outcome of MI in diabetic patients