the short-term survival following acute myocardial infarction: a prospective observational study

introduction: to investigate 28 days survival rate following first acute myocardial infarction (ami) associated with the presence of classical risk factors and treatment modalities in gorgan, north of iran. materials and methods: our cohort including all patients hospitalized due to ami from 2010 to 2013. data were collected on demographic, prophylactic drugs and classical coronary risk factors. data were analyzed using kaplan-meier and log rank tests. cox proportional hazard model was built to estimate relative risk by taking into account other variables. results: median age of subjects was 58 and 64 for men and women, respectively; moreover, the occurrence of diabetes was 52.5 and 24.5 for them. a poorer outcome was detected in survival rate for women in the final model. excess death occurrence in fars or non- persian ethnicity, and those who were not prescribed statin was detected in the adjusted model. conclusion: a better survival rate for those who were prescribed statin suggest that it could be beneficial in treatment modality and non-persian ethnicities needed to be considered as a group of at risk for earlier screening programs. in spite of some other studies a poorer outcome following ami for women was found even after taking into account age and comorbidity.