Implications of changing definitions of myocardial infarction on number of events and all-cause mortality: The WHO 1979, ESC/ACC 2000, AHA 2003, and Universal 2007 definitions revisited

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1349-1357

  Langørgen, Jørund ^a   Ebbing, Marta ^b   Igland, Jannicke ^c   Vollset, Stein Emil ^c   Nordrehaug, Jan Erik ^a,c   Tell, Grethe S ^c   Nygård, Ottar ^a,c  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; CKMB; definition; hospitalized; mortality; number of events; troponin; universal

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NOMENCLATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORWAY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN I; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84908886541     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487313493056     Document Type: Article

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