chest pain in acute myocardial infarction among diabetic and nondiabetic patients considering that diabetic patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction ami may or may not have chest pain this study aimed to compare the presence and intensity of chest pain in ami between diabetic and nondiabetic patients we conducted a crosssectional study that included patients with ami aged 18 years both sexes we used a verbal numeric scale for assessing the presence and intensity of pain the study included 88 patients of whom 77 875 nondiabetic patients and 11 125 diabetics the pain was present in 11 100 of diabetics and in 76 987 of nondiabetics the intensity of pain in diabetics was 891 versus 823 in nondiabetic patients the study showed similarity in the presence and intensity of chest pain between diabetic and non diabetic patients suffering from ami