Soroka acute myocardial infarction (SAMI) score predicting 10-year mortality following acute myocardial infarction

摘要

As short-term survival from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) improves in the last 3 decades, better understanding of the long-term natural history and risk stratification tools becomes more important [1 ]. Long-term risk stratification is of great importance to both clinicians as benefits of costly interventions and medical treatments are greatest in patients at higher risk [2,3]. Thus, much effort has been put into designing and validating risk scores [2,4,5]. However, studies and scores evaluating long-term prognosis in unselected cohorts and including non-cardiologic co-morbidities are scarce. Recently we developed and validated a risk score, Soroka Acute Myocardial Infarction (SAMI) Score predicting one- and five-year mortality [6]. The SAMI score is a simple assessment tool, based entirely on "real life" available and easily accessible clinical information including a wide variety of non-cardiovascular co-morbidities [6].