A Comprehensive Secondary Prevention Benchmark (2PBM) Score Identifying Differences in Secondary Prevention Care in Patients After Acute Coronary Syndrome.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to quantify secondary prevention care by creating a secondary prevention benchmark (2PBM) score for patients undergoing ambulatory cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Methods: In this observational cohort study, 472 consecutive ACS patients who completed the ambulatory CR program between 2017 and 2019 were included. Benchmarks for secondary prevention medication and clinical and lifestyle targets were predefined and combined in the comprehensive 2PBM score with maximum 10 points.

External Validation and Extension of a Clinical Score for the Discrimination of Type 2 Myocardial Infarction.

Background: The early non-invasive discrimination of Type 2 versus Type 1 Myocardial Infarction (T2MI, T1MI) is a major unmet clinical need. We aimed to externally validate a recently derived clinical score (Neumann) combing female sex, no radiating chest pain, and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) concentration ≤40.8 ng/L.