Baseline characteristics among 101,407 people with myocardial infarction over nine-year time period: a population-based study using primary care data

Abstract

CardioVascular (CV) Disease (CVD) accounts for 25% of all UK deaths [1-4]. Before developing and applying new or existing CV risk prediction tools [5-22] for prediction of incident CVD events, it is important to have a description of the baseline characteristics of the patients who experienced a myocardial Infarction (MI) event. This paper presents the baseline characteristics of a cohort of patients who experienced a first MI between 1st of January 2006 and 31st of December 2014 in England, UK, age equal or greater than 35 years