Effectiveness and Safety of Aldosterone Antagonist Therapy Use Among Older Patients With Reduced Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Effectiveness and Safety of Aldosterone Antagonist Therapy Use Among Older Patients With Reduced Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction

BackgroundWhile aldosterone antagonists have proven benefit among post‐myocardial infarction (MI) patients with low ejection fraction (EF), how this treatment is used among older MI patients in routine practice is not well described. Methods and ResultsUsing ACTION Registry‐GWTG linked to Medicare d...

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Main Authors: Tracy Y. Wang, Amit N. Vora, S. Andrew Peng, Gregg C. Fonarow, Sandeep Das, James A. de Lemos, Eric D. Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
aldosterone antagonist therapy
heart failure
mortality
older population
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.115.002612

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