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Observational Study
. 2021 Jan 5;10(1):e017829.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.017829. Epub 2020 Dec 26.

Association of Previous Myocardial Infarction and Time to Presentation With Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction

Valentina Troester  1   2 , Ivo Strebel  1   2 , Thomas Nestelberger  1   2 , Jasper Boeddinghaus  1   2 , Maria Rubini Gimenez  1   2   3 , Pedro Lopez-Ayala  1   2 , Luca Koechlin  1   2   4 , Noemi Glarner  1   2 , Alexandra Prepoudis  1   2 , Òscar Miró  1   5 , F Javier Martin-Sanchez  2   6 , Damian Kawecki  2   7 , Dagmar I Keller  8 , Raphael Twerenbold  1   2 , Christian Mueller  1   2 ; APACE Investigators *
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Observational Study

Association of Previous Myocardial Infarction and Time to Presentation With Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction

Valentina Troester et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: acute coronary syndrome; education; prevention; secondary prevention.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Nestelberger has received research support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (P400PM_191037/1), the Prof. Dr. Max Cloëtta Foundation, the Margarete und Walter Lichtenstein‐Stiftung (3MS1038), and the University Hospital Basel as well as speaker honoraria/consulting honoraria from Siemens, B. Braun, Beckman Coulter, Bayer, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, and Orion Pharma, outside the submitted work. Dr Boeddinghaus has received research grants from the University of Basel, the University Hospital of Basel, the Division of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter‐Rhyner‐Foundation; and has received speaker honoraria and/or consulting honoraria from Siemens, Roche Diagnostics, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, and Quidel Corporation. Dr Koechlin received a research grant from the University of Basel, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Gottfried and Julia Bangerter‐Rhyner Foundation, as well as the “Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel.” Dr Rubini has received research grants from the Swiss Heart Foundation and Swiss National Science Foundation (P400PM_180828) as well as speakers/consulting honoraria from Abbott, Ortho Diagnostic, Roche, and Siemens. Dr Twerenbold received research support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (P300PB_167803), the Swiss Heart Foundation, the Swiss Society of Cardiology, the University Hospital of Basel, the University of Basel, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation Basel as well as speaker honoraria/consulting honoraria from Abbott, Amgen, Brahms, Roche, Singulex, and Siemens. Dr Mueller has received research support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Heart Foundation, Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation, the European Union, the University of Basel, the University Hospital Basel, the Stiftung für kardiovaskuläre Forschung Basel, Abbott, Beckman Coulter, Biomerieux, Idorsia, Ortho Cinical Diagnostics, Quidel, Roche, Siemens, Singulex, and Sphingotec, as well as speaker honoraria/consulting honoraria from Acon, Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, BMS, Idorsia, Novartis, Osler, Roche, and Sanofi, outside of the submitted work. The remaining authors have no disclosures to report.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Cumulative distribution curve of patient delay of patients with vs without prior acute myocardial infarction (AMI), quantified as time from chest pain onset (CPO) to presentation to the emergency department (ED) (A), time from chest pain maximum (CPM) to presentation to the ED (B), and time from CPO to presentation to the ED in the subgroup of patients with an adjudicated final diagnosis of AMI (C).
*Vertical line denotes the overall median.
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