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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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Prevalence and impact of non-cardiovascular comorbidities among older adults hospitalized for non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

TL;DR: A higher burden of NCCs correlated with increased LOS and lower survival and Contemporary ACS management guidelines need to recognize and incorporate protocols for the treatment of individuals with multiple chronic conditions to reduce the occurrence of adverse outcomes.
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Impact of Preprocedural Anemia on Outcomes ofPatients With Mitral Regurgitation Who UnderwentMitraClip Implantation.

TL;DR: The results suggest that preprocedural anemia was common and negatively affected patient survival, and establishing optimal management of anemia before MitraClip implantation is necessary, particularly for patients with severe heart failure.
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Baseline Hemoglobin Levels Associated with One-Year Mortality in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients.

TL;DR: Higher hemoglobin levels in STEMI patients with anemia were associated with decreased risks of 1-year mortality, whereas higher hemoglobin LEVELs in those with erythrocytosis were associatedWith increased risks of one- year mortality.
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Parameters influencing in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized in intensive cardiac care unit: is there an influence of anemia and iron deficiency?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the incidence and prognostic value of anemia as well as of the iron status in nonselected patients admitted to an intensive cardiac care unit (ICCU).
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Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology - A proposal for reporting

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.

The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for Assessing the Quality of Nonrandomised Studies in Meta-Analyses

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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