The long-term prognosis of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) aged 45 years or younger and differences according to gender have not been well characterized.
We included 16,685 consecutive STEMI patients from 2003 to 2012 (67,992 patient-years follow-up) from the Eastern Danish Heart Registry and the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry who were treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
We identified 1026 (6.2%) patients up to 45 years of age (mean age: 40.7 vs. 66.3 years, P
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