Factors affecting immediate mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction: a nationwide study.
The hospital mortality was evaluated for 21 days in all patients with a first attack of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Israel. Total mortality was 21.1 percent. The following factors were associated with relatively better prognoses: age, young; sex, male; marital status, married; ethnic origin, European; site, subendocardial; history of smoking, and, to a certain degree, hypertension; low levels of white blood cells, blood sugar, serum transaminase and cholesterol; and anticoagulant therapy.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D007557:Israel / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking
D000925:Anticoagulants