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Japan expects decrements in both the incidence and mortality of acute myocardial infarction in the modern era: likely or just a dream?

Masanori Asakura, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 74, Iss: 1, pp 43-44
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This article is published in Circulation.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Myocardial infarction.

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Relationship between hospital volume and outcomes following primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: There is an inverse association between a hospital's primary PCI volume and in-hospital mortality for patients with acute MI, and periodic outcomes research is necessary in conjunction with progress in PCI practice and technology to establish the recommended PCIVolume and regionalization for improvements in care.
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Temporal Trends in the Incidence and Clinical Features of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Japanese Rural Area From 2006 to 2014

TL;DR: The present study is the first to demonstrate a decreased age-adjusted incidence of MI during the period from 2006 to 2014 in a Japanese rural population, especially in the elderly.
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Prognostic value of N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide level on admission in patients with acute myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.

TL;DR: NT-proBNP showed a strong predictive power for adverse outcomes beyond traditional risk factors and echocardiographic indices of LV systolic and diastolic function in patients with acute MI and preserved LVEF.
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The Role of Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome

TL;DR: Echocardiography has gradually evolved into an inexpensive yet highly effective and noninvasive practical tool in assessment of patients with chest pain and plays a signifi cant role in the exclusion of other etiologies of chest pain.
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Anti-arrhythmic Drugs

TL;DR: Anti-arrhythmic drugs alter the electrical properties of the heart principally by either prolonging the cardiac action potential, decreasing conduction velocity, reducing focal automaticity or a combination of these effects.
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Prevention of coronary heart disease with pravastatin in men with hypercholesterolemia. West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study Group

TL;DR: Treatment with pravastatin significantly reduced the incidence of myocardial infarction and death from cardiovascular causes without adversely affecting the risk of death from noncardiovascular causes in men with moderate hypercholesterolemia and no history of my Cardiac Infarction.
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Antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase as predictors of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus before clinical onset of disease.

TL;DR: Anti-GAD is a valuable early predictive marker and is associated with a very high risk for development of IDDM, and was measured in prediabetic sera from 151 women aged 20-39 years with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus who had been identified through a nationwide diabetes register.
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Trends in acute myocardial infarction incidence and mortality over 30 years in Japan: report from the MIYAGI-AMI Registry Study.

TL;DR: The MIYAGI-AMI Registry Study as mentioned in this paper has been conducted for 30 years since 1979, whereby all AMI patients in the Miyagi prefecture are prospectively registered.