title: Acute myocardial infarction: one year follow-up of 1138 cases from the Perth Community Coronary Register.
abstract: The one year mortality of patients from the Perth Acute Myocardial Infarction Register surviving the acute episode (first 28 days) is presented. Of 1138 patients suffering definite or possible acute myocardial infarction in one year, 705 (62%) survived 28 days. There were 89 deaths (11-5%) in the subsequent 11 months. One year mortality was related to age but not sex, previous symptoms of coronary heart disease, but not hypertension or diabetes, to tachycardia and congestive cardiac failure at first examination, but not arrhythmias in the acute episode. These observations highlight the importance of protecting the myocardium in the acute phase of myocardial infarction.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000401:mortality; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D012042:Registries; D014505:Urban Population