Epidemiology of Myocardial Infarction

Myocardial infarction redefined—a consensus document of The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology committee for the redefinition of myocardial infarction

2000 • 4,786 citations

ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina and Non–ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Executive Summary and Recommendations

2000 • 4,662 citations

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2006 Update

2006 • 3,513 citations

The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: design and objectives. The ARIC investigators.

1989 • 3,034 citations

THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS RISK IN COMMUNIT (ARIC) STUDY: DESIGN AND OBJECTIVES

1989 • 2,695 citations

Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Insights

2015 • 2,477 citations

Myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project. Registration procedures, event rates, and case-fatality rates in 38 populations from 21 countries in four continents.

1994 • 2,242 citations

A dictionary of epidemiology

2008 • 2,132 citations

Myocardial infarction redefined—A consensus document of The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Committee for the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction

2000 • 2,092 citations

Cardiac-Specific Troponin I Levels to Predict the Risk of Mortality in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes

1996 • 1,780 citations

The world health organization monica project (monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease): A major international collaboration

1988 • 1,727 citations

History of the Rochester Epidemiology Project

1996 • 1,479 citations

Contribution of trends in survival and coronar y-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA Project populations

1999 • 1,457 citations

The World Health Organization MONICA Project (Monitoring trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease): A major international Collaboration

1988 • 1,264 citations

Cardiac Troponin T Levels for Risk Stratification in Acute Myocardial Ischemia

1996 • 1,129 citations

ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with unstable angina and non–st-segment elevation myocardial infarction

2000 • 959 citations

Trends in the Incidence of Myocardial Infarction and in Mortality Due to Coronary Heart Disease, 1987 to 1994

1998 • 847 citations

A two-decades (1975 to 1995) long experience in the incidence, in-hospital and long-term case–fatality rates of acute myocardial infarction: a community-wide perspective

1999 • 771 citations

Recent Trends in Acute Coronary Heart Disease — Mortality, Morbidity, Medical Care, and Risk Factors

1996 • 705 citations

Community surveillance of coronary heart disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: Methods and initial two years' experience

1996 • 673 citations

Discordance of Databases Designed for Claims Payment versus Clinical Information Systems: Implications for Outcomes Research

1993 • 621 citations

Temporal Trends in Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction

1999 • 601 citations

Estimation of contribution of changes in coronary care to improving survival, event rates, and coronary heart disease mortality across the WHO MONICA Project populations

2000 • 525 citations

Rationale and design of the GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events) Project: A multinational registry of patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes

2001 • 525 citations

International diagnostic criteria for acute myocardial infarction and acute stroke

1984 • 502 citations

European Society of Cardiology and American College of Cardiology guidelines for redefinition of myocardial infarction: How to use existing assays clinically and for clinical trials

2002 • 405 citations

Trends in Acute Coronary Heart Disease Mortality, Morbidity, and Medical Care From 1985 Through 1997

2001 • 351 citations

Explaining the Decline in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Finland between 1982 and 1997

2005 • 339 citations

Plasma 99th Percentile Reference Limits for Cardiac Troponin and Creatine Kinase MB Mass for Use with European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Consensus Recommendations

2003 • 327 citations

Minnesota Code Manual of Electrocardiographic Findings

1983 • 308 citations

Trends in the Incidence and Survival of Patients with Hospitalized Myocardial Infarction, Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1979 to 1994

2002 • 253 citations

A communitywide perspective of sex differences and temporal trends in the incidence and survival rates after acute myocardial infarction and out-of-hospital deaths caused by coronary heart disease.

1993 • 243 citations

Recent changes in attack and survival rates of acute myocardial infarction (1975 through 1981). The Worcester Heart Attack Study

1986 • 205 citations

A dictionary of epidemiology

1996 • 204 citations

Sex and Time Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality: the Framingham Heart Study, 1950-1989

1996 • 167 citations

Incidence of Heart Failure after Myocardial Infarction: Is It Changing over Time?

2003 • 158 citations

Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction

2006 • 153 citations

Possible Influence of the Prospective Payment System on the Assignment of Discharge Diagnoses for Coronary Heart Disease

1993 • 125 citations

Healthy volunteer effect in a cohort study: Temporal resolution in the adventist health study

1996 • 125 citations

Selection Bias in the Referral of Patients and the Natural History of Surgical Conditions

1985 • 111 citations

Impact of the troponin standard on the prevalence of acute myocardial infarction

2003 • 111 citations

The New Definition of Myocardial Infarction

2002 • 107 citations

Temporal trends in the incidence of coronary disease

2004 • 105 citations

British Cardiac Society Working Group on the definition of myocardial infarction

2004 • 102 citations

Elevations in Cardiac Troponin Measurements: False False-Positives: The Real Truth

2001 • 87 citations

Trends in coronary events in Finland during 1983–1997; The FINAMI study

2003 • 78 citations

Greater Incidence of Hospitalized Myocardial Infarction Among Mexican Americans Than Non-Hispanic Whites

1997 • 77 citations

The potential costs of upcoding for heart failure in the United States

1999 • 75 citations

Coronary disease surveillance in Olmsted County objectives and methodology

2002 • 70 citations

Mitigation of the clinical significance of spurious elevations of cardiac troponin I in settings of coronary ischemia using serial testing of multiple cardiac markers

2001 • 69 citations

Differences in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction by troponin T compared with clinical and epidemiologic criteria

2001 • 69 citations

Longitudinal Trends in the Severity of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Population Study in Olmsted County, Minnesota

2002 • 62 citations

Comparison of Computer-assigned Minnesota Codes with the Visual Standard Method for New Coronary Heart Disease Events

2000 • 58 citations

The Validity of the Routine Mortality Statistics on Coronary Heart Disease in Finland

1999 • 53 citations

The Community as an Epidemiologic Laboratory: A Casebook of Community Studies

1971 • 52 citations

Community surveillance for cardiovascular disease: The Framingham Cardiovascular Disease Survey

1976 • 40 citations

Community surveillance for coronary heart disease: The Framingham Cardiovascular Disease Survey

1976 • 38 citations

The community as an epidemiologic laboratory: A case-book of community studies

1971 • 38 citations

Community surveillance for cardiovascular disease. Methods, problems, applications—A review

1978 • 37 citations

The effect of correcting for troponins on trends in coronary heart disease events in Finland during 1993-2002: the FINAMI study

2006 • 37 citations

Trends in severity of hospitalized myocardial infarction: The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) study, 1987–1994

2000 • 36 citations

Hospitalization rates for myocardial infarction among Mexican-Americans and non-hispanic whites the corpus christi heart project

1993 • 36 citations

Unsatisfactory redefinition of myocardial infarction

2001 • 35 citations

Acute myocardial infarction in the United States, 1970–1983

1987 • 29 citations

Caveat emptor

2003 • 16 citations