The association between older age and receipt of care and outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes: a cohort study of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP)

Zaman, Michele; Stirling, Susan; Shepstone, Lee; Ryding, Alisdair; Flather, Marcus; Bachmann, Max; Kyaw Myint, Phyo

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehu039

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The association between older age and receipt of care and outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes: a cohort study of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP)

Published in European Heart Journal • Mar 18, 2014

Authors:

Michele Zaman

Susan Stirling

Lee Shepstone

Abstract

AIMS: Older people increasingly constitute a large proportion of the acute coronary syndrome (ACS) population. We examined the relationship of age with receipt of more intensive management and secondary prevention medicine. Then, the comparative association of intensive management (reperfusion/angio...

Subject

Medicine

Myocardial infarction

Intensive care

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