Brush JE, Siraj ES, Kemp CD, et al. - Whether mortality, combined postoperative events, and specific postoperative complications after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) can be significantly predicted by diabetes mellitus (DM), was investigated in this single-center study of consecutively treated CABG patients. Researchers compared patients with no DM vs those with DM, subgrouped based on whether or not DM was managed with insulin prior to admission (Insulin and No Insulin Groups). Overall patients were 11,590, of those, 5,013 (43%) had DM and 6,577 (57%) had no DM. Findings revealed that in-hospital mortality or combined in-hospital postoperative events were not predicted by DM, after adjusting for other clinical factors. They found that permanent stroke, surgical site infection, and new renal failure were predicted by DM.