Life Expectancy and Years of Potential Life Lost: Useful Outcome Measures in Cardiovascular Medicine?

Jack V Tu¹

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¹ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Schulich Heart Centre, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: tu@ices.on.ca.

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Jack V Tu. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015.

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. 2015 Aug 11;66(6):656-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.05.073.

Jack V Tu¹

¹ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Schulich Heart Centre, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: tu@ices.on.ca.

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Keywords: acute myocardial infarction; life expectancy; race; sex.

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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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