Population
2,816 patients hospitalized with incident myocardial infarction from 1987 to 2006 in Olmsted County…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days and long-term
Authors
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Improved 30-day post-MI survival over two decades may inform prognostication; leaves open troponin's isolated contribution versus concurrent care advances.
The introduction of troponin-based criteria shifted the epidemiology of myocardial infarction, markedly increasing NSTEMI incidence, while 30-day mortality improved significantly from 1987 to 2006.
Roger et al. (2010) studied this question.