1. Prognostic impact of anaemia on patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated by primary PCI
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Adam Timmis, Daniel I. Bromage, Vrijraj S. Rathod, Andrew Wragg, Krishnaraj S. Rathod, Rajiv Amersey, Saidi A Mohiddin, Anthony Mathur, Sean Gallagher, Daniel A. Jones, Ajay K. Jain, Oliver P Guttmann, Charles Knight, Martin T. Rothman, and Akhil Kapur
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Myocardial Infarction ,Comorbidity ,Kaplan-Meier Estimate ,Hemoglobins ,Percutaneous Coronary Intervention ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,London ,medicine ,Humans ,Myocardial infarction ,Aged ,Proportional Hazards Models ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Hazard ratio ,Percutaneous coronary intervention ,Anemia ,Retrospective cohort study ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Treatment Outcome ,Cohort ,Myocardial infarction complications ,Female ,Myocardial infarction diagnosis ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Biomarkers - Abstract
AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of baseline anaemia on the outcome in patients treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) for ST-elevation myocardial infarction. METHODS This study was a retrospective cohort study of 2418 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated by PPCI between January 2004 and August 2010 at a single centre. We investigated the outcome in patients with anaemia compared with that in patients with a normal haemoglobin (Hb) level. Anaemia was defined according to the WHO definition as an Hb level less than 12 g/dl for female individuals and less than 13 g/dl for male individuals. We also calculated hazard ratios using a stratified model according to the Hb level. RESULTS A total of 471 (19%) patients were anaemic at presentation. The anaemic cohort was older (72.2 vs. 62.4 years, P
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- 2014