Temporal trends in the prevalence and outcomes of geriatric patients with acute myocardial infarction in Japan-A report from the Miyagi AMI Registry Study.

CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate that increasing prevalence of HF on admission and increasing performance of primary PCI counteract each other with resultant unchanged in-hospital outcomes in geriatric AMI patients in Japan. PMID: 31732230 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Cardiology - November 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sato K, Takahashi J, Hao K, Miyata S, Suda A, Shindo T, Ikeda S, Kikuchi Y, Shiroto T, Matsumoto Y, Sakata Y, Shimokawa H Tags: J Cardiol Source Type: research