What is the difference in mortality rate between CABG and PCI for patients with diabetes mellitus?
A large meta-analysis that included the BARI trial but not BARI 2D failed to identify any significant difference in mortality rate after CABG versus PCI for patients with diabetes mellitus.1079 In a more recent, collaborative analysis that pooled patient-level data from 10 randomized trials (again, not including BARI 2D), Hlatky and colleagues found that of the 1233 patients with diabetes mellitus, 23% of those assigned to CABG died, compared with 29% of those assigned to PCI. 1080 By contrast, of the 6561 patients without diabetes mellitus, 13% and 14% died, respectively (P50.014 for interaction).