Socioeconomic status, functional recovery, and long-term mortality among patients surviving acute myocardial infarction.

To examine the relationship between socio-economic status (SES), functional recovery and long-term mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI).The extent to which SES mortality disparities are explained by differences in functional recovery following AMI is unclear.We prospectively examine...

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Main Authors: David A Alter, Barry Franklin, Dennis T Ko, Peter C Austin, Douglas S Lee, Paul I Oh, Therese A Stukel, Jack V Tu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3670842?pdf=render