Survival And Prognostic Factors of Acute Myocardial Infarction

The prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart attack has shown a steady improvement over the last three decades. Nevertheless, it remains a major public health problem both in developed and developing countries including Malaysia. This book provided important prognostic data and information for patients with acute myocardial infarction in a local setting. The content of this book includes overview of AMI globally and locally, comprehensive methods on retrospective record review design for survival study, detail results of Kaplan Meier Product-limit Estimate and Cox Proportional Hazard Regression Model survival analysis and discussion. It will benefit the researchers who interested in coronary heart disease epidemiology, prevention and control. In addition, it will definitely provides a good guide to researchers or post graduate students who conduct survival study and analysis.