Recent Decline in Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Background Many patients with acute myocardial infarction will still die after admission. Recent trends in hospital mortality were analyzed to identify aspects that need improvement. Methods and Results A total of 1, 247 patients admitted to Kinki University School of Medicine within 24h of the onset of infarction were analyzed between 1975 and 2001. The percentage of patients discharged with 100% occlusion decreased gradually from 31.3% during 1975-1982 to 2.1% during 1998-2001, while those with 50% stenosis or less gradually increased from 12.5% to 82.5% during the same period (trends : p<0.01). The cardiac death rate was 17.1% in 1975-1982, and 7.7% in 1998-2001, showing a significant decrease with time (p<0.01). This decrease was particularly marked among those admitted within 6h of the onset of infarction. Death due to cardiac rupture decreased significantly with time (p<0.001). In contrast, the non-cardiac death rate, amounting to 2.2% on average, did not decline. Conclusions Cardiac deaths due to acute myocardial infarction have decreased markedly of late. However, patients must be admitted within 6h of the onset of infarction to benefit from this improvement. More effort should be made to improve the general care of patients in order to reduce the incidence of non-cardiac death.
社団法人日本循環器学会の論文
2005-03-20