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Temporal trends in concordance between ICD-coded and cardiac biomarker-classified hospitalisation rates for acute coronary syndromes: a linked hospital and biomarker data study

Open Heart

Using person-linked hospitalisation data, we compared International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-coded data with biomarker-classified admission rates for ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI), non-STEMI (NSTEMI) and unstable angina (UA) in Western Australia (WA). Results There were 37 272 ACS admissions in 30 683 patients (64.2%

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Lowering Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events by Treating Residual Inflammatory Risk

DAIC

14,15 Similarly, the NLRP3 inflammasome has been implicated in pathogenesis as it leads to the activation of proinflammatory cytokines triggering robust proinflammatory signaling through interleukin-6 (IL-6) and inducing production of C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker for inflammation.16 2013;368(21):2004-2013. N Engl J Med.