Direct Medical Costs Attributable to Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke in Cohorts with Atherosclerotic Conditions

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Sloss ◽  
Steven L. Wickstrom ◽  
Daniel F. McCaffrey ◽  
Steven Garber ◽  
Thomas S. Rector ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (S1) ◽  
pp. 41-41
Author(s):  
Mengran Zhang ◽  
Hongchao Li ◽  
Aixia Ma ◽  
Pingyu Chen

IntroductionPrevalence of dyslipidemia in Chinese adults is increasing rapidly. Dyslipidemia is one of the most important risk factors for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), which represents a serious disease burden to the country. However, there is no published research on the costs of Chinese patients diagnosed with AMI combining dyslipidemia. This study aimed to report key findings of the disease burden in China, including direct medical costs and direct non-medical costs.MethodsSix hospitals from different geographic areas were selected in China for data collection. Patients who were hospitalized due to AMI combining dyslipidemia from January 1 2016 to December 31 2016 in the six sites were enrolled. Direct medical costs including inpatient and outpatient costs were extracted through electronic medical records; medical costs occurred in other healthcare institutions and direct non-medical costs were collected by a face-to-face questionnaire survey. Results were analyzed with descriptive statistics.ResultsData of 900 patients were analyzed. There were more males (78.40%) than females. The mean age was 62.1 (SD: 11.5). The times of inpatient and outpatient per year were 0.57 and 8.67, respectively. Medium direct medical costs and medium direct non-medical costs were 31,440 RMB (Interquartile range (IQR): 21,533–48,202) (4,443 USD: 3043–6812) and 665 RMB (IQR: 351–1328) (94 USD: 50–188), respectively; while corresponding medium indirect costs per year were 659 RMB (IQR: 226–1579) (93 USD: 32–223).ConclusionsThis is the first study comprehensively analyzing the disease burden of patients diagnosed with AMI combining dyslipidemia in China. The results suggested that the medical cost of this population is still high. Hospitalization cost accounted for 81 percent of the total cost, which was around 1.3 times of the annual per capita disposable income over the same period. Therefore, the importance of providing effective clinical management as well as dyslipidemia prevention and control intervention should be highlighted, especially for middle-aged and elderly males with dyslipidemia.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Proctor ◽  
Massoud A. Leesar ◽  
Arka Chatterjee

Thrombolytic therapy kick-started the era of modern cardiology but in the last few decades it has been largely supplanted by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as the go-to treatment for acute myocardial infarction. However, these agents remain important for vast populations without access to primary PCI and acute ischemic stroke. More innovative uses have recently come up for the treatment of a variety of conditions. This article summarizes the history, evidence base and current use of thrombolytics in cardiovascular disease.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Lun Lai ◽  
Raymond Nien-Chen Kuo ◽  
Ting-Chuan Wang ◽  
K. Arnold Chan

Abstract Background Several studies have found a so-called weekend effect that patients admitted at the weekends had worse clinical outcomes than patients admitted at the weekdays. We performed this retrospective cohort study to explore the weekend effect in four major cardiovascular emergencies in Taiwan. Methods The Taiwan National Health Insurance (NHI) claims database between 2005 and 2015 was used. We extracted 3811 incident cases of ruptured aortic aneurysm, 184,769 incident cases of acute myocardial infarction, 492,127 incident cases of ischemic stroke, and 15,033 incident cases of pulmonary embolism from 9,529,049 patients having at least one record of hospitalization in the NHI claims database within 2006 ~ 2014. Patients were classified as weekends or weekdays admission groups. Dates of in-hospital mortality and one-year mortality were obtained from the Taiwan National Death Registry. Results We found no difference in in-hospital mortality between weekend group and weekday group in patients with ruptured aortic aneurysm (45.4% vs 45.3%, adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.01, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.87–1.17, p = 0.93), patients with acute myocardial infarction (15.8% vs 16.2%, adjusted OR 0.98, 95% CI 0.95–1.00, p = 0.10), patients with ischemic stroke (4.1% vs 4.2%, adjusted OR 0.99, 95% CI 0.96–1.03, p = 0.71), and patients with pulmonary embolism (14.6% vs 14.6%, adjusted OR 1.02, 95% CI 0.92–1.15, p = 0.66). The results remained for 1 year in all the four major cardiovascular emergencies. Conclusions We found no difference in either short-term or long-term mortality between patients admitted on weekends and patients admitted on weekdays in four major cardiovascular emergencies in Taiwan.


Stroke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander E Merkler ◽  
Gino Gialdini ◽  
Santosh Murthy ◽  
Shadi Yaghi ◽  
Babak Navi ◽  
...  

Background: Acute myocardial infarction (MI) has long been reported as a risk factor for ischemic stroke, but the magnitude and duration of risk remains uncertain. Methods: We performed a crossover-cohort study using inpatient and outpatient claims data from a nationally representative 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries from 2008 through 2014. We identified all patients ≥66 years of age with a first-recorded hospitalization for acute MI. The primary outcome was ischemic stroke. All predictors and outcomes were defined using previously validated ICD-9-CM codes. To exclude stroke that may have been due to percutaneous coronary intervention, we included only cases of ischemic stroke that occurred after discharge from the MI hospitalization. We compared the risk of ischemic stroke in successive 4-week periods during the 12 weeks after MI versus the corresponding 4-week periods 1 year later. To avoid immortal time bias, we limited our cohort to patients who remained alive and insured throughout the 15 month study period. Odds ratios (OR) and absolute risk differences were calculated using the Mantel-Haenszel estimator for matched data. Results: We identified 22,798 patients with an acute MI in whom the mean age was 77.4 (±7.9) years and 50.3% were women. In the 12 weeks after discharge, 216 patients (0.95%) developed a stroke, as compared to 21 (0.09%) patients in the corresponding 12-week period 1 year later. The absolute increase in stroke risk was 0.45% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.36-0.55%) in the first 4 weeks after acute MI compared to the 4-week time period 1 year later, corresponding to an OR of 18.2 (95% CI, 8.1-50.6). The absolute risk increase was 0.24% (95% CI, 0.16-0.31%) during weeks 5-8 (OR, 8.7; 95% CI, 4.0-22.6) and 0.17% (95% CI, 0.10-0.23%) during weeks 9-12 (OR, 5.8; 95% CI, 2.7-14.1). Conclusions: Acute MI is associated with a substantially elevated short-term risk of ischemic stroke. This risk was independent of periprocedural stroke risk in the setting of coronary reperfusion therapies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Åström ◽  
Lars Söderström ◽  
Thomas Mooe

AbstractOnly sparse epidemiological data are available regarding the risk of ischemic stroke (IS) after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Here we aimed to describe the incidence and predictors of IS associated with CABG performed after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), as well as trends over time. We analyzed data for 248,925 unselected AMI patients. We separately analyzed groups of patients who underwent CABG early or late after the index infarction. IS incidence rates per year at risk were 15.8% (95% confidence interval, 14.5–17.1) and 10.9% (10.6–11.2), respectively, among patients with and without CABG in the early cohort, and 4.0% (3.5–4.5) and 2.3% (2.2–2.3), respectively, among patients with and without CABG in the late cohort. Predictors of post-AMI IS included prior IS, CABG, prior atrial fibrillation, prior hemorrhagic stroke, heart failure during hospitalization, older age, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Reduced IS risk was associated with use of statins and P2Y12 inhibitors. IS incidence markedly decreased among patients who did not undergo CABG, while no such reduction over time occurred among those who underwent CABG. This emphasizes the need to optimize modifiable risk factors and to consistently use treatments that may reduce IS risk among CABG patients.


Platelets ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-123
Author(s):  
Nuccia Morici ◽  
Stefano Nava ◽  
Alice Sacco ◽  
Giovanna Viola ◽  
Jacopo Oreglia ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 155 (4) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Jade García Espinosa ◽  
Elena Moya Sánchez ◽  
Alberto Martínez Martínez

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