PARIS, March 20 -- Atherosclerotic arterial disease seems to predict relatively high rates of myocardial infarction, stroke, or cardiovascular death within a year, according to a large, international registry study.In an overall stable population with arterial disease at baseline, about one in seven patients had a cardiovascular event or was hospitalized for an event or a revascularization procedure within a year, found a prospective cohort study reported in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Patients with established arterial disease had event rates two to three times higher than those with multiple risk factors only, Ph. Gabriel Steg, M.D., of Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard here, and colleagues, found in an analysis of 68,236 patients.
Atherothrombotic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, said Dr, Steg and colleagues. Yet, they said, few studies have documented the current cardiovascular event rates in these patients.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/CoronaryArteryDisease/tb1/5287
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