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Risk factors for major adverse cardiovascular events after the first acute coronary syndrome |
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| Author: | Okkonen, Marjo1,2; Havulinna, Aki S.3,4; Ukkola, Olavi1,2; |
| Organizations: |
1Research Unit of Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland 3Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
4FIMM: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland
5Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; 6University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 7North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu, Finland 8University of Turku and Heart Center Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.4 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021090345148 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Informa,
2021
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| Publish Date: | 2021-09-03 |
| Description: |
AbstractAims: To evaluate risk factors for major adverse cardiac event (MACE) after the first acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and to examine the prevalence of risk factors in post-ACS patients. Methods: We used Finnish population-based myocardial infarction register, FINAMI, data from years 1993–2011 to identify survivors of first ACS (n = 12686), who were then followed up for recurrent events and all-cause mortality for three years. Finnish FINRISK risk factor surveys were used to determine the prevalence of risk factors (smoking, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes and blood pressure) in post-ACS patients (n = 199). Results: Of the first ACS survivors, 48.4% had MACE within three years of their primary event, 17.0% were fatal. Diabetes (p = 4.4 × 10−7), heart failure (HF) during the first ACS attack hospitalization (p = 6.8 × 10−15), higher Charlson index (p = 1.56 × 10−19) and older age (p = .026) were associated with elevated risk for MACE in the three-year follow-up, and revascularization (p = .0036) was associated with reduced risk. Risk factor analyses showed that 23% of ACS survivors continued smoking and cholesterol levels were still high (>5mmol/l) in 24% although 86% of the patients were taking lipid lowering medication. Conclusion: Diabetes, higher Charlson index and HF are the most important risk factors of MACE after the first ACS. Cardiovascular risk factor levels were still high among survivors of first ACS. see all
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| Series: |
Annals of medicine |
| ISSN: | 0785-3890 |
| ISSN-E: | 1365-2060 |
| ISSN-L: | 0785-3890 |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 817 - 823 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07853890.2021.1924395 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1080/07853890.2021.1924395 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine |
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| Funding: |
FINAMI study was supported by the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research. MO has received funding from the Medical Research Centre of Oulu Doctoral Program and State Research Funding. VS has received funding from the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research. |
| Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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