Jung-Joon Cha, SungA Bae, Duk-Woo Park, Jae Hyoung Park, Soon Jun Hong, Seong-Mi Park, Cheol Woong Yu, Seung-Woon Rha, Do-Sun Lim, Soon Yong Suh, Seung Hwan Han, Seong-Ill Woo, Nae-Hee Lee, Donghoon Choi, In-Ho Chae, Hyo-Soo Kim, Young Joon Hong, Youngkeun Ahn, Myung Ho Jeong, Tae Hoon Ahn
BACKGROUND: Recently, the number of patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) has reduced, whereas increased mortality was reported. A plausible explanation for increased mortality was prehospital delay because of patients' reticence of their symptoms. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between prehospital delay and clinical outcomes in patients with NSTEMI METHODS: Among 13,104 patients from the Korea-Acute-Myocardial-Infarction-Registry-National Institutes of Health, the authors evaluated 6,544 patients with NSTEMI...
February 1, 2022: Journal of the American College of Cardiology