Single-living is associated with increased risk of long-term mortality among employed patients with acute myocardial infarction

Objective: There is conflicting evidence about the impact of social support on adverse outcome after acute myocardial infarction (MI). We examined the relation between single-living and long-term all-cause mortality after MI. Design: A prospective cohort study of 242 employed patients with MI followed up to 16 years after MI. Results: A total of 106 (43.8%) patients died during the follow-up. Single-living nearly doubled the risk of death; after adjusting for potential confounding factors, single-living was an independent predictor of death, with a hazard ratio of 2.55 (95% confidence interval: 1.52–4.30). Other predictors of death were diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, age, and ejection fraction less than 35%. Conclusion: Single-living is a prognostic determinant of long-term all-cause mortality after MI.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Clinical Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2010-05-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2147/CLEP.S8975PMID 20865108PMCID 2943193
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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