Association of platelet to lymphocyte ratio with in-hospital major adverse cardiovascular events and the severity of coronary artery disease assessed by the Gensini score in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

CONCLUSIONS: PLR as a novel inflammatory marker is significantly and independently associated with the occurrence of in-hospital MACEs and the severity of CAD assessed by the GS in patients with AMI. As an easily available and inexpensive inflammatory indicator, PLR could be widely used as an efficient inflammatory biomarker for identifying high-risk patients and for individualizing targeted therapy to improve the prognosis of AMI.
PMID: 31977557 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chinese Medical Journal - January 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Li XT, Fang H, Li D, Xu FQ, Yang B, Zhang R, An Y Tags: Chin Med J (Engl) Source Type: research