Prognostication of Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes

摘要

Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is one of the major causes of death in Europe. In order to decrease mortality from IHD, studies have been undertaken to identify factors and mechanisms that cause IHD and promote its progression, and to clarify the relationships of these factors with the clinical course of the disease, the treatment, and the prognosis [1]. The principal aim of most scientific clinical studies evaluating patients' survival and prognosis was the assessment of the complex risk of an unfavorable health event (e.g. death or myocardial infarction) or assessment of the survival function on the basis of the indicators of patients' condition [2-7].