Mortality of patients excluded from the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trail II. The DAVIT-II Study Group.

The 18 month mortality rate in 2180 patients excluded from the Danish Verapamil Infarction Trail II (DAVIT II) was 25.6%. In non-consenters (n = 368) this was 15.0% compared with 13.85 in 897 placebo-treated patients (hazard ratio 1.09 [P = 0.60] when adjusting for sex and age). The increased mortality rate in excluded patients is attributed to heart failure (45.8%) and other severe diseases (38.9%).

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