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- Title
Twenty-year trends in the incidence of stroke complicating acute myocardial infarction: Worcester Heart Attack Study.
- Authors
Saczynski, Jane S; Spencer, Frederick A; Gore, Joel M; Gurwitz, Jerry H; Yarzebski, Jorge; Lessard, Darleen; Goldberg, Robert J
- Abstract
Given the improved survival of patients after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), more patients are at risk for cerebrovascular complications of AMI. Trends in the magnitude of stroke in the setting of AMI are not well characterized, however, and neither have contemporary trends in the hospital death rates of patients developing acute stroke been examined.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2008, Vol 168, Issue 19, p2104
- ISSN
1538-3679
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinte.168.19.2104