Apolipoprotein A and prognosis after myocardial infarction in non-diabetic men.

The implications of apolipoproteins A-I and A-II for the prognosis of 178 non-diabetic men after acute myocardial infarction were studied. During a mean follow-up period of 4 years, one or more "coronary events" (nonfatal myocardial infarction, fatal coronary heart disease, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, deterioration of exercise ECG) were recorded in 37 patients. Serum levels of apolipoproteins A-I and A-II did not discriminate between patients with and without coronary events.

Long-term prognosis of patients with silent ischemia, symptomatic ischemia and without ischemia after acute myocardial infarction.

The prognosis of 55 patients with silent ischemia (group I: asymptomatic ST segment depression of greater than or equal to 0.1 mV on symptom-limited ergometer exercise) was compared with that of 25 patients with angina and ST depression (group II), 22 patients with angina but without ST depression (group III) and 94 patients without angina and without ST depression (group IV) on ergometer testing in the first post-infarction month. Patients for whom PTCA or coronary artery bypass graft surgery was planned for the next months following discharge were excluded.

[Acute myocardial infarct in patients over 70. Results of a 2-year survey].

581 consecutive patients admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction between January 1983 and June 1985 were divided into two groups. Group A (286) patients were aged 70 years or over (76 +/- 4 years); those in group B (246) were 65 or younger (56 +/- 8 years). Group A patients had a significantly higher incidence of anterior-wall infarction (30% vs.

[Importance of risk factors in myocardial infarction (author's transl)].

Importance of risk factors as hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus and cigarette smoking because of hemodynamic and complication during acute myocardial infarction and influence of live quality during the first year after myocardial infarct was pointed out in this study. No risk factor was found in 12.1% out of 248 patients.