Population
775,901 acute myocardial infarction events in subjects aged 20 to 84 years from the Swedish national…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1972 to 2001
Authors
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Declining recurrent AMI risk over decades supports better secondary prevention; leaves open whether trends persist with contemporary therapies.
The risk of recurrent AMI decreases sharply in the first 2 years post-event, reaches a minimum at 5 years, and has significantly declined over the last 3 decades.
Gulliksson et al. (2009) studied this question.