| Autor: |
Sheeren Khaled, Najeeb Jaha, Saudi Arabia King Abdullah Medical City Makkah, Ghada Shalaby |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Cardiology Research Review & Reports. :1-8 |
| DOI: |
10.47363/jcrrr/2020(1)129 |
| Popis: |
Background: Acute myocardial infarction in young individuals can cause death and disability in early life and has serious consequences for the patients, their family causing an increased economic burden on health system. Identifying the risk factors for acute myocardial infarction in this group of people is necessary for risk factor modification and developing cost-effective secondary prevention strategies as young. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, clinical background and in-hospital outcome of AMI among young (age ≤45 years) adults and its socioeconomic burden. Results: All Acute myocardial infarction patients during the period from 2016-2019 were divided into two groups: young adults (age≤45) and older adults (age>45). Age data were available for 3081 patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction. Out of these 593 (19%) patients were young adults with mean age of 39±6.2 whilst 2488 (80.7%) were older adults with mean age of 60±9. Young adult Patients were more of male gender (92% vs 82%, p |
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OpenAIRE |
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