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An Audit of Cardiac Mortality Due to Acute Myocardial Infarction at a Tertiary Institution in the Southwestern Region of Trinidad and Tobago

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DOI: 
10.7727/wimjopen.2014.113
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60–5
Synopsis: 
Acute myocardial infarction mortality affects mainly Indo-Trinidadians versus Afro-Trinidadians (ratio of 5:1), with a general population variation of 2.2:1 (East Indian:African). Males (56.3%) were predominantly affected. Diabetes, hypertension and a combination of diabetes and hypertension accounted for most deaths.

ABSTRACT

Objective: This study aims to identify the profile of patients who died from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during hospital admission in southwest Trinidad. 

Accepted: 
June 19, 2014
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Acute Myocardial Infarction Identified in a Peripheral Clinic and Treated with Urgent Surgical Revascularization: Door to Knife in Less than Three Hours

Issue: 
DOI: 
10.7727/wimjopen.2014.023

INTRODUCTION

According to the  World Health Organization, coronary heart disease kills more people each year in high, middle and low income countries alike than any other disease. The 2012 Pan American report for Trinidad and Tobago showed a 51% raised risk for non-communicable lifestyle disease and the concomitant risk of cardiac disease in the 25–64-year age group with a reported increased rate of obesity, hypertension and diabetes (1).

Accepted: 
February 12, 2014
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