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Yulanka Castro-Dominguez1, Kumar Dharmarajan1, Robert L McNamara1
1Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Abstract:
Recognizing and understanding the risk factors for mortality after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) provide clinicians and patients important information to determine prognosis and guide treatment. Most risk stratification models use demographic and clinical information that exists prior to hospitalization plus clinical presentation characteristics to estimate a patient's risk of mortality. In this review, we summarize the most important risk factors and discuss current models to predict mortality.
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