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. 2000 Jun;83(6):726–730. doi: 10.1136/heart.83.6.726

The natural history of acute myocardial infarction

R Norris 1
PMCID: PMC1760869  PMID: 10814643

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Total case fatality in the UK heart attack study and case fatality outside hospital by age group. Reproduced from Norris1 with permission of BMJ Publishing Group.

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Necropsy findings in 168 cases of sudden coronary death in which the coronary arteries were examined by post mortem arteriography and histology of sections made at 3 mm intervals. Reproduced from Davies3 with permission of the American Heart Association.

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Two year survival after resuscitation from out-of-hospital arrest according to whether or not new pathological Q waves developed. Reproduced from Baum and colleagues5 with permission of the American Heart Association.

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Age specific death rates from coronary heart disease in men 1968 to 1997, plotted as a percentage of the rates in 1968. Reproduced from British Heart Foundation Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 1999, with permission.

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Hospital fatality predicted by a coronary prognostic index in patients treated in 1966-67 and 1995-97. Modified and reproduced from Christiansen and Liang14 with permission of the publisher.

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Thirty day fatality (red bars), lives saved by resuscitation from cardiac arrest (green bars), and lives estimated to have been saved by thrombolytic treatment (yellow bars) according to delay in presentation to the hospital. Numbers above the bars refer to the numbers of patients in each group. Reproduced from UK heart attack study17 with permission of BMJ Publishing Group.

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