[PDF] Top 20 Epidemiology of acute myocardial infarction in Salvador, Brazil: Incidence, lethality, and mortality

... The purpose of the work being partially reported here was to define the role of acute myocardial in- farction as a health problem in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Br[r] ... See full document

... Most of the previous studies that analyzed the effect of the implementation of smoke-free legislation, used hospital-based AMI ...reduction in acute coronary events in Rome [6] ... See full document

... impact of AF on the mortality out- comes of a well-defined cohort of patients with confirmed acute PE using statewide population linkage ...observed in smaller cohorts that AF ... See full document

... objective of this study was to analy- ze the effect of age-period and cohort (APC) of birth on mortality for acute myocardial infarction in Brazil ... See full document

... MI mortality, weather variables, and air pollution, control- ling for seasonal trends, day-of-week, public holidays, and influenza ...spans of previ- ous moving averages of air ... See full document

... that in Salvador mortality due to ischemic heart disease re- mained stable between 1979 and 1989 in men and in women aged 35 to 64 ...evolution of mortality ... See full document

... events and myocardial ischemia. The most common cause of death in stroke is cardiovascular disease ...active, and sustained implementation of effective strategies for preventing ... See full document

... care in Sweden in 2001 and this slightly increased the observed incidence ...[20]. In 2003, the level was about eight per cent above the level for ...However, in 2004, the ... See full document

... cause of peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAOD) of the lower ...atherosclerosis in other arterial sites, mainly the coronary ...risk of AMI. here are, however, few reports in the ... See full document

... developed acute renal failure and those who did not develop ...analysis of risk factors for acute renal failure, we used lo- gistic regression analysis with a P value < ... See full document

... increase of death rate, longer delay until successful reperfusion, lower success rate in elderly patients, mainly after 69 years of age, than ages less than 69 ...Because of higher ... See full document

... Characteristics of the global population, EG and YG groups were compared using Pearson chi-square tests or Fisher exact tests as ...estimates of survival in the global population, EG ... See full document

... heredity and obesity; angiographic data: location of the coronary lesion; ACTP, stent implantation and implanted ...hemodynamic and cineangiocardiographic study was performed through left ... See full document

... number and volume of myocytes which to- gether contribute to development of the adult heart 2 ...after myocardial infarction 1, 3, 4 . Most of human bodily organs contain ... See full document

... value of treadmill stress testing in a large population (around 10,000 patients, of whom, more than 6,000 underwent treadmill stress testing) with acute myo- cardial infarction treated ... See full document

... specific mortality due to acute myocardial infarction and to the remaining ischemic heart diseases by usual residence of the deceased were obtained from the Datasus (provided by ... See full document

... anterolateral and apical ...ventilation, and the arterial blood pressure became very labile, going from as high as 320/240 mmHg to as low as 70/30 mmHg, warranting the use of vasodilators and, ... See full document

... insufficiency and cancer have higher mortality, so their absolute benefit from treatment is more prominent than their coun- ...ratio in patients at higher risk who are generally under-represented ... See full document

... consisted of 100 individuals, with 29 women (W), aged between 41 and 87 years, and 71 men (M), aged between 27 and 80 ...12.10 and for the M group ...prevailing in the total ... See full document

... portion of the anterior descending branch origi- nating from the right coronary artery had an anomalous tra- jectory, passing in front of the pulmonary artery towards the anterior interventricular ... See full document