Journal of Heart and Cardiology Journal of Heart and Cardiology Journal of Heart and Cardiology Journal of Heart and Cardiology 2378-6914Ommega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA116510.15436/2378-6914.16.1165Research ArticleDeterminants of acute myocardial infarction of Worcester heart attack study Determinants of acute myocardial infarction of Worcester heart attack study Rabindra DasDepartment of Statistics The University of Burdwan Burdwan West Bengal IndiaEditor* E-mail: rabin.bwn@gmail.com
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
20160512201622JHC-16-RA-116517102016281120162016Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp Objectives This article aims to identify the determinants of the Systolic Blood Pressure SBP Diastolic Blood Pressure DBP and the Heart Rate HR of the Acute Myocardial Infarction AMI patients in the Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS Background Little is known about the determinants of SBP DBP and HR of AMI patients in the WHAS Methods The responses DBP SBP and HR are positive with non-constant variances so joint log-normal or gamma model fittings are appropriate for these responses Results Mean DBP is inversely separately associated with age P lt 0 001 congestive heart complications CHF P 0 007 and Myocardial Infarction MI order MIORD P 0 054 and it is directly separately associated with HR P lt 0 001 SBP P lt 0 001 a trial fibrillation AFB P 0 072 cardiogenic shock SHO P 0 036 myocardial infarction MI type MITYPE P lt 0 001 Mean SBP is negatively separately associated with HR P lt 0 001 AFB P 0 011 SHO P lt 0 001 MITYPE P lt 0 001 and it is positively separately associated with age P 0 013 sex P 0 002 DBP P lt 0 001 history of cardiovascular disease CVD P 0 011 Mean HR is inversely separately associated with SBP P lt 0 001 history of cardiovascular disease CVD P 0 095 complete heart block CV3 P 0 033 MITYPE P lt 0 001 cohort year YEAR P 0 032 and it is positively separately associated with AGE P 0 039 DBP P lt 0 001 CHF P lt 0 001 Conclusions Determinants of mean and variance of SBP DBP and HR of AMI patients in the WHAS are derived in this report Effects of these determinants on their responses are also derived These derived effects are almost new in the WHAS literature 10