[Chronic renal failure: an independent factor of mortality after myocardial infarction].
OBJECTIVE
The prognostic significance of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was studied in a registry of 754 patients admitted for myocardial infarction in Franche Comté; 333 of them had STEMI.


METHODS
One-year mortality was 11.5%: 2.3% in the group with normal GFR, 9.4% in the group with moderate renal failure, and 24.2% in the group with severe renal failure. GFR increased the prognostic value of conventional risk scores.


CONCLUSIONS
Chronic renal failure therefore appears as a major independent predictor of mortality after myocardial infarction.
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Service de cardiologie, EA479, hôpital universitaire Jean-Minjoz, boulevard Fleming, 25000 Besançon, France. francois.schiele@ufc-chu.univ-fcomte.fr
D000368:Aged; D003404:Creatinine / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality*; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality*; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012042:Registries
D003404:Creatinine