title: [Clinical and demographic analysis of prehospital diagnosis of myocardial infarction in adjara during the period of 2006 through 2008].
abstract: The goal of the investigation is to study results of prehospital diagnosis of myocardial infarction in 519 patients of different gender and age. Myocardial infarction was atypical in 27.8.0% and typical in 72.0% of patients. Late diagnosis of typical and atypical MI was 13.4% and 21.2% respectively. No statistically significant differences were found in frequency of diagnostic errors in different demographic groups of patients. For the three years of this investigation, there was a trend to hyperdiagnosis of myocardial infarction, especially in young patients and males. Late diagnosis occurred more rarely in both males and females. During the investigation period, the reduction of hypo and rise in hyperdiagnosis occurred due to atypical variants.
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Tsintsadze
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D005846:Georgia (Republic) / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult