title: Educational attainment and myocardial infarct-related congestive heart failure (the Determinants of Myocardial Infarction Onset Study).
abstract: We assessed educational attainment and complications during hospitalization in 3,882 patients with acute myocardial infarction for the Determinants of Myocardial Infarction Onset Study. Educational attainment had a graded, inverse association with prevalence of congestive heart failure (CHF) during hospitalization, with the lowest prevalence among patients who attended college (odds ratio 0.75; 95% confidence interval, 0.57 to 0.99; p for trend 0.02), with similar findings among men, women, whites, and blacks.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, RO-114, Boston, MA 02215, USA. kmukamal@bidmc.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Kenneth J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Mukamal
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maclure
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Muller
authors.forename: Jane B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Sherwood
authors.forename: Murray A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mittleman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology