Life Expectancy and Years of Potential Life Lost After Acute Myocardial Infarction by Sex and Race: A Cohort-Based Study of Medicare Beneficiaries.

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Abstract

Most studies of sex and race differences after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have not taken into account differences in life expectancy in the general population. Years of potential life lost (YPLL) is a metric that takes into account the burden of disease and can be compared by sex and race.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.

Title: Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1558-3597

ISSN (Print): 0735-1097

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 11 2015

Volume: 66

Issue: 6

Affiliations

[1 ] Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.

[2 ] Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

[3 ] Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.

[4 ] Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.

[5 ] Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut; Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: harlan.krumholz@yale.edu.

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Publisher Item ID: S0735-1097(15)02817-X

DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.06.022

PubMed ID: 26248991

SO-VID: be42b964-af7e-4130-a5de-755de01c7a77

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Keywords: acute coronary syndromes,population perspective,survival

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Keywords: acute coronary syndromes, population perspective, survival

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