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Anemia and mortality in acute coronary syndromes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Clinically and statistically significant increases in mortality were observed as early as at 30 days post-ACS and persisted at 1 year and anemia in patients with ACS is independently associated with a significantly increased risk of early and late mortality.
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This article is published in American Heart Journal.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 132 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anemia & Relative risk.

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Transfusion in Older Anemic Patients: Should the Troponin Value Be Taken into Account?

TL;DR: In this article , a 2-year retrospective study in an acute geriatric unit, 514 patients with hemoglobin <10 g/dL and troponin sampling were included.
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Non‐erythropoiesis stimulating agent, non‐iron therapies for the management of anemia: A scoping review

TL;DR: In the perioperative population, anemia contributes substantially to the global burden of disease, affecting approximately one third of the population as discussed by the authors and is associated with an array of poor outcomes, and when coupled with other comorbidities, increased mortality.
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How should I treat elderly patients at high bleeding risk with acute coronary syndrome

TL;DR: Anemia is an important risk factor for both ischemic and bleeding complications and its evaluation for risk stratification is fundamental for the management of patients with acute coronary syndrome.
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Estudio estratigráfico y constructivo del pozo de San Marcial: arqueología y arquitecturas del agua en un asentamiento de conquista bajomedieval (San Marcial de Rubicón, Yaiza, Lanzarote)

TL;DR: The yacimiento de San Marcial de Rubicón acoge los vestigios del primer asentamiento permanente de esta hueste europea, entre los que se encuentra el pozo de SAN MARCAL DE RUBICON, objeto de this trabajo as discussed by the authors .
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TL;DR: A checklist contains specifications for reporting of meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology, including background, search strategy, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion should improve the usefulness ofMeta-an analyses for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and decision makers.

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TL;DR: The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) as discussed by the authors was developed to assess the quality of nonrandomised studies with its design, content and ease of use directed to the task of incorporating the quality assessments in the interpretation of meta-analytic results.
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Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rank-based data augmentation technique is proposed for estimating the number of missing studies that might exist in a meta-analysis and the effect that these studies might have had on its outcome.
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