Bereavement and Prognosis After a First Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Swedish Register-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND Despite accumulating evidence suggesting that bereavement is associated with increased risks of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, the association between bereavement and prognosis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has not been well documented. We investigated the association by using Swedish register data. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 266 651 patients with a first AMI included in the SWEDEHEART (Swedish Web-system for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-based care in Heart disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies) quality register from 1991 to 2018. We obtained information on bereavement (ie, death of a partner, child, grandchild, sibling, or parent), on primary (nonfatal recurrent AMI and death attributed to ischemic heart disease) and secondary ou

SUBMITTER: Wei D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9496408 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature