CASE OF THE WEEK:
Contributed by Mark Jasper:
How likely is coronary artery disease to occur
in young patients? An autopsy series in US communities evaluated young patients (avg age 36
years old) who died of "non-natural" causes revealed coronary
atherosclerosis in > 80% of the autopsy sample, with 8% having significant
obstructive disease.
The bottom line is simple....be wary of discounting the risk of ACS purely
based on a patient's age. The HPI is the most important factor in
predicting ACS.
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