| Literature DB >> 28826668 |
Yulanka Castro-Dominguez1, Kumar Dharmarajan1, Robert L McNamara2.
Abstract
Recognizing and understanding the risk factors for mortality after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) provide clinicians and patients important information to determine prognosis and guide treatment. Most risk stratification models use demographic and clinical information that exists prior to hospitalization plus clinical presentation characteristics to estimate a patient's risk of mortality. In this review, we summarize the most important risk factors and discuss current models to predict mortality.Entities:
Keywords: Acute Myocardial Infarction; Mortality; Risk factors; Risk models; Risk prediction
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28826668 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcm.2017.07.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cardiovasc Med ISSN: 1050-1738 Impact factor: 6.677