ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2024
Association of monocyte-lymphocyte ratio and myocardial infarction in the U.S. population with diabetes.
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- Preoperative LDL-C and mortality after cardiac valve surgery: a retrospective cohort study on the mediating role of inflammatory risk.Lipids in health and disease · 2026Article
- Association between monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio and cardiovascular diseases: insights from NHANES data.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Article
- Stress hyperglycemia ratio and machine learning model for prediction of all-cause mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Article
- Monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of left ventricular aneurysm in acute STEMI patients.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background and objective: The monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) has emerged as a novel inflammatory biomarker; however, its relationship with myocardial infarction (MI) in diabetic populations remains unclear. This study aimed to elucidate the association between MLR and MI prevalence in this unique population. Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2015-2018. MLR was utilized as both a continuous and categorical factor to examine its correlation with MI in individuals diagnosed with DM. Subgroup and sensitivity analyses were also performed. Results: In this study, 1,295 individuals with DM were enrolled, among whom 148 (11.4%) were diagnosed with MI. Patients with MI showed a greater MLR. Using a smoothed curve-fitting analysis, a linear relationship was observed between MLR and MI (p Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that MLR is significantly correlated with MI in patients with DM.
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