Population
1,925 consecutive patients with a first acute myocardial infarction admitted to a major institute in Japan…
Design
Case-control
Authors
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Supports risk stratification in Japanese patients; confirms known factors but leaves generalizability and causality open.
Hypertension, diabetes, smoking, and family history are major independent risk factors for acute myocardial infarction in Japanese patients, with hypercholesterolemia being an independent risk factor in men but not women.
Kawano et al. (2006) studied this question.
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