Secondary prevention in myocardial infarction survivors
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Secondary Prevention after Myocardial Infarction
Myocardial infarction reflects the most severe form of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and falls under the increasingly used umbrella term, acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Improvements in the acute management of myocardial infarction have seen deaths due to the condition fall by 31% over the period from 2002 to 2011. Nonetheless, behind this encouraging headline lie some less positive statistics. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cardiology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0160-9289
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960040209