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The impact of anthropomorphic indices on clinical outcomes in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17040928     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
AIMS: Multiple studies have focused on the relationship of body anthropometric measures with clinical events in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, highlighting the 'obesity paradox'. However, the relative prognostic importance of these measures over other baseline variables is less known. METHOD AND RESULTS: We performed a retrospective analysis of 94,108 STEMI patients from seven clinical trials evaluating various reperfusion strategies to study the relationship and prognostic importance of height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and body surface area (BSA) with 30-day death and in-hospital cardiogenic shock, major bleeding, and stroke. Main outcome measures of interest included 30-day death and in-hospital cardiogenic shock, major bleeding, and stroke. Weight, BMI, and BSA were inversely and independently related to all clinical events. Despite being statistically significant (P<0.0001), the prognostic information contributed by weight beyond that conferred by baseline clinical factors was minimal (<1% of total prognostic information) making it of limited clinical relevance for predicting 30-day death and cardiogenic shock. In contrast, weight accounted for 8.4% and 4.3% of the prognostic information in the logistic regression models for major bleeding and for stroke. BMI or BSA added little incremental value over simple measure of weight. CONCLUSION: Although statistically significantly related to most outcomes in patients with STEMI including death and shock, body weight provided clinically relevant prognostic information only for the risk of major bleeding and of stroke. Furthermore, BMI or BSA contributed little incremental prognostic information beyond that provided by weight alone. Thus, the existing large body of information concerning the strong prognostic importance of anthropometric measures with outcomes after STEMI should be interpreted in the context of other more important risk factors.
Authors:
Rajendra H Mehta; Robert M Califf; Jyotsna Garg; Harvey D White; Frans Van de Werf; Paul W Armstrong; Karen S Pieper; Eric J Topol; Christopher B Granger
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Meta-Analysis     Date:  2006-10-13
Journal Detail:
Title:  European heart journal     Volume:  28     ISSN:  0195-668X     ISO Abbreviation:  Eur. Heart J.     Publication Date:  2007 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-02-16     Completed Date:  2007-11-08     Revised Date:  2007-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8006263     Medline TA:  Eur Heart J     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  415-24     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke University Medical Center, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715, USA, and Greenlane Cardiovascular Service, Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand. mehta007@dcri.duke.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Body Height / physiology*
Body Mass Index*
Body Weight / physiology*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / etiology*,  physiopathology
Prognosis
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Regression Analysis
Retrospective Studies
Stroke / etiology,  physiopathology

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