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Effect of early initiation of statins on survival in patients with acute myocardial infarction (the USIC 2000 Registry)
- Source :
- The American journal of cardiology. 95(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- We evaluated the association of statin initiation within 48 hours of admission for an acute myocardial infarction with a 1-year prognosis on a nationwide scale. Patients who received a statin within 48 hours of admission but not before hospitalization had an improved prognosis (hazard ratio 0.57, 95% confidence interval 0.38 to 0.86, p
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Statin
Time Factors
medicine.drug_class
Myocardial Infarction
Early initiation
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
In patient
cardiovascular diseases
Myocardial infarction
Registries
Aged
Proportional Hazards Models
business.industry
Hazard ratio
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Prognosis
Confidence interval
Hospitalization
Intensive Care Units
Propensity score matching
Cardiology
Female
France
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00029149
- Volume :
- 95
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American journal of cardiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....acb269e5e1fac1e3d5123b5224cd26ba