Living alone predicts poor prognosis among patients with acute myocardial infarction
Daichi Fukumoto,
Daisuke Kanda,
Takuro Takumi
et al.
Abstract:Background
Living alone as a proxy for social isolation has been considered to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. We thus investigated the impact of living alone on mortality in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients.
Methods
Subjects comprised 277 AMI patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Associations between all-cause and cardiac deaths after PCI and baseline characteristics including living alone and Global Re… Show more
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