Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
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March 2013
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Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis · Mar 2013
Impact of age on the prognostic value of body mass index in ST-Elevation myocardial infarction.
No data are so far available on the impact of age and obesity in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) submitted to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). ⋯ In our series, underweight is associated with the highest mortality across all age subgroups, while only in patients <75 years, overweight patients showed increased in-hospital mortality rate and a poorer long term survival rate. According to our data, the "so called obesity paradox" should be probably age-contextualized.