Binita Shah, Sripal Bangalore, Eugenia Gianos, Li Liang, W Frank Peacock, Gregg C Fonarow, Warren K Laskey, Adrian F Hernandez, Deepak L Bhatt
BACKGROUND: Recent initiatives have focused on primary prevention to delay time to first myocardial infarction (MI). The aim of this study was to evaluate the change in risk factor profile over time in patients without known cardiovascular disease presenting with first MI. METHODS: In the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease national registry, 100,884 patients without known cardiovascular disease presenting with acute MI from 408 hospitals were evaluated between 2002 and 2008...
April 2014: American Heart Journal