Twenty-eight day and one-year case fatality after hospitalisation with an acute coronary syndrome: a nationwide data linkage study.

Conclusions and Implications: The major determinant of increasing case fatality was increasing age. There were also substantial differences in case fatality by ethnicity, deprivation and diagnostic category. Further research is needed to explore the possible mechanisms by which ethnic and deprivation disparities occur and effective strategies to address them.
PMID: 24890478 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Grey C, Jackson R, Wells S, Marshall R, Riddell T, Kerr AJ Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research