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SUBMITTER: Kaneko H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948512 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaneko Hidehiro H Yajima Junji J Oikawa Yuji Y Tanaka Shingo S Fukamachi Daisuke D Suzuki Shinya S Sagara Koichi K Otsuka Takayuki T Matsuno Shunsuke S Funada Ryuichi R Kano Hiroto H Uejima Tokuhisa T Koike Akira A Nagashima Kazuyuki K Kirigaya Hajime H Sawada Hitoshi H Aizawa Tadanori T Yamashita Takeshi T
Heart and vessels 20130404 2
Japan has become an aging society, resulting in an increased prevalence of coronary artery disease. However, clinical outcomes of elderly Japanese patients after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remain unclear. Of the 15,227 patients in the Shinken Database, a single-hospital-based cohort of new patients, 1,214 patients who underwent PCI, was evaluated to determine the differences in clinical outcomes between the elderly (≥75 years) (n = 260) and the non-elderly (<75 years) (n = 954) pat ...[more]