Acute, Severe Noncardiac Conditions in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 843-850

  Lichtman, Judith H ^a   Fathi, Amir ^b   Radford, Martha J ^c   Lin, Zhenqiu ^d   Loeser, Caroline S ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33748765294     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.03.040     Document Type: Article

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