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BACKGROUND The association between admission hyperglycemia and adverse outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not been well studied, and the optimal plasma glucose cut-off values for prognosis for NSTEMI patients with and without diabetes have not been determined. METHODS According to glucose le...

OBJECTIVE This study is to document the clinical characteristics and improvement in management of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Chinese population. RESULTS This study included 64,654 patients (23,805 patients in 2011, 40,849 patients in 2013), of which STEMI and NSTEMI account for 85.09% and 14.91%, respectively. From 2011 to 2013, significant improvement has been achieved in the recan...

BACKGROUND recent studies report an age-dependent decline in mortality after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). OBJECTIVE to investigate age-dependent improvements in survival after hospitalisation with AMI. DESIGN population-based cohort study using data from the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project. SUBJECTS a total of 583,466 patients with AMI admitted to 247 hospitals between 1...

It is not clear whether gender is associated with different hospitalization cost and lengths for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We identified patients hospitalized for primary diagnosis of AMI with (STEMI) or without (NSTEMI) ST elevation from 1999 to 2008 through a national database containing 1,000,000 subjects. As compared to that in 1999~2000, total (0.35‰  versus 0.06‰, P < 0.001) and ...

Benefits of early reperfusion in patients presenting with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are well known. The American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guidelines recommend triage decisions are made within 10 minutes of performing initial electrocardiogram (ECG). Since many patients presenting with ischemic symptoms may have ST elevation (STE) at baseline, not...

INTRODUCTION Due to its negative impact on prognosis, a clear assessment of bleeding risk for patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains crucial. Different risk scores have been proposed and compared, although with inconsistent results. AIM We performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the accuracy of different bleeding risk scores for ACS patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS All s...

BACKGROUND There has been a paradigm shift in the definition of timing of early invasive strategy (EIS) for patients admitted with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in the last decade. Data on trends of EIS for NSTEMI and associated in-hospital outcomes are limited. Our aim is to analyze temporal trends in the incidence, utilization of early invasive strategy, and in-hospital outc...

The incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in elderly individuals is high. This population has higher rates of complications and represents a greater burden on health resources. Moreover, elderly individuals are underrepresented in clinical trials. A few randomized trials on reperfusion in elderly patients with AMI have included patients aged around 80 years, but extrapolation of these ...

background: increased estimated body iron stores have been recently suggested to be associated with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (ami); however the question of whether serum ferritin level as an indicator for estimating body iron is an independent risk factor for cardiac events is still questioned. in the present study, we assessed whether serum ferritin was associated with the...