† These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editor: Manuel Martínez-Sellés
The aim of this observational study was to assess long-term prognosis of
a contemporary octogenarian population admitted to an Intensive Cardiac Care Unit
with acute myocardial infarction (MI), and the prognostic value of two simple
biomarkers obtained at admission: glucose blood level (ABG) and estimated
glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). A total of 293 consecutive patients were
included (202 with ST elevation MI and 91 with non-ST elevation MI) with median
age 83.9 years, 172 (58.7%) male. The optimal cut-off points for all-cause death
defined by ROC curves were ABG