Long-term mortality after stroke is higher than after myocardial infarction

Long-term, cause-specific mortality after myocardial infarction in diabetes.

AIMS To compare long-term, cause-specific mortality after reperfusion therapy for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in patients with and without diabetes. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients with STEMI (n = 395) were randomised to intravenous streptokinase (SK) or primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Median follow-up was 7.5 years (interquartile range 5.6-8.5). A total ...

Stopping smoking and long-term mortality after acute myocardial infarction.

A prospective follow-up study was carried out to investigate the relation between smoking and risk of death after an acute myocardial infarction. The study consisted of male patients under the age of 65 years, who had had an acute myocardial infarction between 1972 and 1975 in North Karelia, Finland. Of these patients, 888 survived the first six months after the acute infarction and were follow...

Long-term and short-term beta-blockade after myocardial infarction.

Higher serum uric acid on admission is associated with higher short-term mortality and poorer long-term survival after myocardial infarction: retrospective prognostic study.

AIM To assess serum uric acid (SUA) levels determined on admission as a potential predictor of short-term mortality and long-term survival in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. METHOD Data for this retrospective prognostic study were drawn from the patient database of the Varazdin County General Hospital in Varazdin, Croatia. We included consecutive patients with verified AMI admitte...

Prediction of long-term cardiac events by 123I-MIBG imaging after acute myocardial infarction and reperfusion therapy

Objective(s): In heart failure, the heart-to-mediastinum (H/M) ratio of the delayed image and washout rate (WR) are well-known as a powerful cardiac event predictors. H/M ratio quantifies the accumulation rate of MIBG in the myocardium and WR quantifies reduction of meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) accumulation in the heart from the early planar image to the delayed pla...