Population Trends in the Incidence and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction

✍ Scribed by Yeh, Robert W.; Sidney, Stephen; Chandra, Malini; Sorel, Michael; Selby, Joseph V.; Go, Alan S.

• Book ID: 121361730
• Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 418 KB
• Volume: 362
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-6762
• DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0908610

✦ Synopsis

Conclusions
Within a large community-based population, the incidence of myocardial infarction decreased significantly after 2000, and the incidence of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction decreased markedly after 1999. Reductions in short-term case fatality rates for myocardial infarction appear to be driven, in part, by a decrease in the incidence of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and a lower rate of death after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.