2023
Impact of Marital Stress on 1‐Year Health Outcomes Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Zhu C, Dreyer R, Li F, Spatz E, Caraballo‐Cordovez C, Mahajan S, Raparelli V, Leifheit E, Lu Y, Krumholz H, Spertus J, D'Onofrio G, Pilote L, Lichtman J. Impact of Marital Stress on 1‐Year Health Outcomes Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2023, 12: e030031. PMID: 37589125, PMCID: PMC10547344, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.123.030031.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionCardiac-specific qualityGeneric health statusMyocardial infarctionBaseline healthMarital stressHealth outcomesHealth statusWorse patient-reported outcomesMental healthYoung adultsObservational cohort studyPatient-reported outcomesSocioeconomic factorsWorse mental healthReadmission 1Cause readmissionCohort studyYounger patientsRoutine screeningDepressive symptomsGreater oddsAnginaMale participantsOutcomes
2022
Identifying quality of life outcome patterns to inform treatment choices in ischemic cardiomyopathy
Mori M, Mark DB, Khera R, Lin H, Jones P, Huang C, Lu Y, Geirsson A, Velazquez EJ, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Identifying quality of life outcome patterns to inform treatment choices in ischemic cardiomyopathy. American Heart Journal 2022, 254: 12-22. PMID: 35932911, DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2022.07.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCardiomyopathiesClinical Trials as TopicCoronary Artery BypassHumansMyocardial IschemiaQuality of LifeTreatment OutcomeConceptsCoronary artery bypass surgeryGuideline-directed medical therapyTreatment choiceBetter outcomesIschemic cardiomyopathyQOL outcomesQoL dataKansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire overall summary scoreQOL trajectoriesOutcome patternsIschemic Heart Failure (STICH) trialHeart Failure TrialMain baseline predictorsArtery bypass surgeryOverall summary scoreDifferent treatment choicesLogistic regression modelsBypass surgeryMedical therapySurgical treatmentFailure TrialLife scoresQOL scoresPatient's probabilityBaseline predictorsHealth status outcomes after spontaneous coronary artery dissection and comparison with other acute myocardial infarction: The VIRGO experience
Murugiah K, Chen L, Dreyer RP, Bouras G, Safdar B, Khera R, Lu Y, Spatz ES, Ng VG, Gupta A, Bueno H, Tweet MS, Spertus JA, Hayes SN, Lansky A, Krumholz HM. Health status outcomes after spontaneous coronary artery dissection and comparison with other acute myocardial infarction: The VIRGO experience. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0265624. PMID: 35320296, PMCID: PMC8942215, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265624.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpontaneous coronary artery dissectionAcute myocardial infarctionAMI patientsCoronary artery dissectionYoung AMI patientsHealth status outcomesHealth status instrumentsSCAD patientsArtery dissectionMyocardial infarctionStatus outcomesPatientsOutcomesHousehold incomeCollege educationInfarction