A National Population-based Study of Adults With Coronary Artery Disease and Coarctation of the Aorta.

ABSTRACT: Adults with repaired coarctation of the aorta (CoA) suffer reduced long-term survival compared with the general population, in part due to coronary artery disease (CAD). There is conflicting evidence as to whether or not CoA is an independent risk factor for CAD. The primary aim was to determine if CoA is independently associated with premature myocardial infarction (MI) in the contemporary era. The secondary aim was to determine if CoA is independently associated with early coronary intervention. In a cross-sectional study using the National Inpatient Sample database from 2005 to 2014, we compared the age at MI and the age at coronary intervention (coronary artery bypass grafting or percutaneous coronary intervention, in the absence of MI diagnosis) in patients with and without CoA using

SUBMITTER: Pickard SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6260783 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature