International comparison of mortality rates in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary events

The authors of a post-hoc analysis of the PURSUIT trial data compared mortality rates between the 585 patients from Latin America and the 4385 that participated in North America, and observed that the rate in the former region was higher than in the latter. 1 Of note, the 95% confidence intervals fo...

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Published in:British heart journal 2003-09, Vol.89 (9), p.1083-1084
Main Authors: Gurfinkel, E P, Bozovich, G, Mautner, B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute coronary syndromes
Analysis
Angina pectoris
Cardiovascular disease
Comparative analysis
Coronary Disease - mortality
Coronary heart disease
efficacy and safety of subcutaneous enoxaparin in unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction
ESSENCE
Europe - epidemiology
global registry of acute coronary events
GRACE
Heart attacks
Hospital Mortality
Humans
international mortality
Mortality
Multicenter Studies as Topic
non-ST elevation acute coronary events
North America - epidemiology
OASIS
organisation to assess strategies for ischaemic syndromes
platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa in unstable angina: receptor suppression using Integrilin
Prognosis
PURSUIT
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Risk factors
Scientific Letters
South America - epidemiology
Statistics
Studies
thrombolysis in myocardial infarction
TIMI
United States
unstable angina
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Summary:The authors of a post-hoc analysis of the PURSUIT trial data compared mortality rates between the 585 patients from Latin America and the 4385 that participated in North America, and observed that the rate in the former region was higher than in the latter. 1 Of note, the 95% confidence intervals for the odds ratios reported for eastern Europe and Latin America were imprecise and included the null value. No differences in mortality were observed between the USA and Brazil in the OASIS cohort of patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary events. 6 The GRACE registry is enrolling consecutive patients from representative clusters in several regions and will undoubtedly contribute to improve our knowledge about inter-regional differences.
ISSN:1355-6037
0007-0769
1468-201X
DOI:10.1136/heart.89.9.1083