Open Access<p>Association between inflammation-based prognostic scores and in-hospital outcomes in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction</p>
Author(s) -
Rui Wang,
Xiaodan Wen,
Cheng Huang,
Yingcong Liang,
Yujing Mo,
Ling Xue
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s214222
Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , logistic regression , myocardial infarction , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , confidence interval , clinical endpoint , clinical trial , physics , optics
Emerging evidence suggests that systemic inflammation is a predictor of poor prognosis in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In this study, we sought to assess whether inflammation-based prognostic scores are associated with in-hospital outcomes in elderly patients with AMI.