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Just curious. Is it true that an 80 year old man is unlikely to have a heart attack if he doesn't have a history of heart problems? More likely to get a heart attack in your 50s/60s?
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BUT
how do you tell
Death cert causes ? 80 y o have a life expectancy of around 5 y
and what do they die from? do they just sort of stop, and when you shake them, they sort of fall off the chair
More likely to be silent- present as heart failure secondary to an infact, and better mortality - sort of more spare blood vessels ( anastomoses but who wants a technical word on AB for chrissakes).
BUT
how do you tell
Death cert causes ? 80 y o have a life expectancy of around 5 y
and what do they die from? do they just sort of stop, and when you shake them, they sort of fall off the chair
More likely to be silent- present as heart failure secondary to an infact, and better mortality - sort of more spare blood vessels ( anastomoses but who wants a technical word on AB for chrissakes).
1980 - ah those were the days ! Plymouth was planning to limit the age of entry to a cardiac care unit to 75 ( upper limit silly, dont let in)
and I said "by definition your mortality will go up compared to all comers"
pourquoi? - over 75s tend to survive their infarcts as they are smaller compared to younger patients, so exclude them and your mortality will rise for no reason other than statistics
and it was one of the first times, on lookers looked at me as tho I were a complete ALIEN
and I said "by definition your mortality will go up compared to all comers"
pourquoi? - over 75s tend to survive their infarcts as they are smaller compared to younger patients, so exclude them and your mortality will rise for no reason other than statistics
and it was one of the first times, on lookers looked at me as tho I were a complete ALIEN
From epidemiology of myocardial infarction
Joshua Chadwick Jayaraj, Karapet Davatyan, S.S. Subramanian and Jemmi Priya published 2018. "According to 2014, based on the self-reported national survey of the UK, the prevalence of MI was reported as 640,000 in men and 275,000 in women; this represents about 915,000 people that have suffered an MI in the UK. In 2013, the prevalence of MI in men was about three times higher than for women in the UK [16]. As shown in Figure 2, the prevalence of age-specific MI extends from 0.06% of men
Joshua Chadwick Jayaraj, Karapet Davatyan, S.S. Subramanian and Jemmi Priya published 2018. "According to 2014, based on the self-reported national survey of the UK, the prevalence of MI was reported as 640,000 in men and 275,000 in women; this represents about 915,000 people that have suffered an MI in the UK. In 2013, the prevalence of MI in men was about three times higher than for women in the UK [16]. As shown in Figure 2, the prevalence of age-specific MI extends from 0.06% of men
oo-er mrs! rowan is right:
Patients older than 70 account for a third to a half of patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted to hospital,1 and 80% of deaths due to acute myocardial infarction occur in those aged over 65 years, 60% of them in people aged 75 or more.
I dont know what we were diagnosing in plymouth 50 y ago, but it clearly wasnt myocardial infarction
Patients older than 70 account for a third to a half of patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted to hospital,1 and 80% of deaths due to acute myocardial infarction occur in those aged over 65 years, 60% of them in people aged 75 or more.
I dont know what we were diagnosing in plymouth 50 y ago, but it clearly wasnt myocardial infarction
I was thinking of this
https:/ /www.js tor.org /stable /254154 28
eek! 1971 and states that the under 65s were dying like flies
how times change
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eek! 1971 and states that the under 65s were dying like flies
how times change
Hi nicey !
very few people read my posts - which is why I put in off-the-wall sly little asides. Fewer understand them, and virtually no one comments ( rationally, 'foo and 'meh' dont count)
From PM thirties - - "very little is important and virtually nothing is very important" - but it was Stanley Baldwin
very few people read my posts - which is why I put in off-the-wall sly little asides. Fewer understand them, and virtually no one comments ( rationally, 'foo and 'meh' dont count)
From PM thirties - - "very little is important and virtually nothing is very important" - but it was Stanley Baldwin
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