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- Title
Serum Potassium Levels and Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction.
- Authors
Goyal, Abhinav; Spertus, John A.; Gosch, Kensey; Venkitachalam, Lakshmi; Jones, Philip G.; den Berghe, Greet Van; Kosiborod, Mikhail
- Abstract
The article discusses a study on the relationship between levels of serum potassium and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the era of widespread use of β-blocker and reperfusion therapy. The study used information on 38,689 patients with AMI included in the Health Facts database of Cerner Corp. in the U.S. The occurrence of ventricular fibrillation, ventricular flutter or cardiac arrest in 1707 patients during hospitalization is discussed. AMI patients with postadmission serum potassium levels between 3.5 and less than 4.5 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L) were found to have the lowest mortality.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POTASSIUM; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL infarction; ADRENERGIC beta blockers; REPERFUSION; CERNER Corp.
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2012, Vol 307, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2011.1967