Diagnosis of myocardial infarct with fatal outcome within the framework of multifactorial prevention of ischemic heart disease in Moscow
Pavlova, L.I.; Chazova, L.V.; Kalinina, A.M.; Shchepkin, V.V.
Kardiologiia 31(2): 59-61
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9040 PMID: 2041295 Document Number: 383196
The death diagnosis of myocardial infarction (including acute heart failure) was recorded and verified on the basis of standard criteria during a 5-year implementation of the Program on Multifactorial Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease among males aged 40-59 years. The analysis demonstrated that the hyperdiagnosis of acute heart failure as a death cause was observed in 29.0% of cases, death being due to acute alcohol intoxication in 43% of all the inconsistent diagnoses.