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Relationship Between Cancer and Cardiovascular Outcomes Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

J Am Heart Assoc

July 2015

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (C.N.H., M.T.R., J.E.T., M.G.K., D.F.K., M.W.K.) Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (C.N.H., M.T.R., R.M.C., K.C., J.E.T., B.R.H., D.F.K., M.W.K.).

Background: Cardiovascular disease and cancer increasingly coexist, yet relationships between cancer and long-term cardiovascular outcomes post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are not well studied.

Methods And Results: We examined stented PCI patients at Duke (1996-2010) using linked data from the Duke Information Systems for Cardiovascular Care and the Duke Tumor Registry (a cancer treatment registry). Our primary outcome was cardiovascular mortality.

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