Temporal trends in clinical characteristics of patients without known cardiovascular disease with a first episode of myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent initiatives have focused on primary prevention to delay time to first myocardial infarction (MI). The aim of this study was to evaluate the change in risk factor profile over time in patients without known cardiovascular disease presenting with first MI.

Methods

In the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease national registry, 100,884 patients without known cardiovascular disease presenting with acute MI from 408 hospitals were evaluated between 2002 and 2008. The time trends of the proportion of patients with cardiovascular risk factors (nonmodifiable: age >45 years for men or >55 years for women, male sex, modifiable: diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, tobacco use) were analyzed. Analyses were stratified

SUBMITTER: Shah B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3964370 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature