Comparison of the effects of early and long term captopril treatment on the elderly and younger patients after acute myocardial infarction
- VernacularTitle:卡托普利早期和长期治疗对老年急性心肌梗死患者生存率的影响
- Author:
Xu CAI
;
Weifeng SHEN
;
Lansheng GONG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Myocardial infarction;
Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors
- From:
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics
2001;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To compare the effects of early and long term treatment with captopril on clinical outcome between elder patients (65 75 years old) and younger patients (0 05), 25 patients in elder treatment group and 52 patients in elder control group (9 29% vs 24 41%, relative risk = 0 37, 95% CI 0 29 0 48, P 0 05), and both the elder and younger patients had better survival (all P
