American Heart Journal
Volume 144, Issue 6 , Pages 1003-1011, December 2002

Elevated serum creatinine is associated with 1-year mortality after acute myocardial infarction☆☆

Boston and Framingham, Mass

From the aCardiology Division, Department of Medicine, and the bDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and cChanning Laboratory, and the dCardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the eNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass

Received 27 April 2001; accepted 4 April 2002.

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 Supported in part by grants HL-03533 and HL-07575, from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Christopher J. O'Donnell, MD, MPH, Premium Heart Study, 73 Mount Wayte Ave, Framingham, MA 01702.

 E-mail: chris@fram.nhlbi.nih.gov

PII: S0002-8703(02)00224-7

doi:10.1067/mhj.2002.125504

American Heart Journal
Volume 144, Issue 6 , Pages 1003-1011, December 2002