Coronary disease & ACSCohort study
Temporal Trends in Noncardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality Following Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Registry-based nationwide cohort study
Authors' conclusion
Although cardiovascular mortality following MI improved substantially during 2000 to 2017, the risk of noncardiovascular morbidity increased. Moreover, noncardiovascular causes constitute an increasing proportion of post-MI mortality.
Study context
- Population
- All Danish patients with myocardial infarction (MI), 2000 to 2017
- Participants
- 136,293 consecutive patients
- Exposure
- 2015 to 2017 vs 2000 to 2002
- Outcome
- CV and noncardiovascular mortality, incident cancer, incident renal disease, severe infectious disease
- Follow-up
- 1 year
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
2000 to 2002
18.4%
CV mortality · Noncardiovascular mortality 5.8% · Proportion of total mortality noncardiovascular 24.1% · Incident cancer 1.9% · Incident renal disease 1.0% · Infectious disease 5.5%
2015 to 2017
7.6%
CV mortality · Noncardiovascular mortality 5.0% · Proportion of total mortality noncardiovascular 39.5% · Incident cancer 2.4% · Incident renal disease 1.6% · Infectious disease 9.1%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it