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April 9, 2005

I don’t have full-text Medline access. In this study by Beyth et al. assessing the bleeding risk for patients on warfarin, a “recent” myocardial infarction is identified as a risk factor. Can someone look up the full text and find out how many months constituted a “recent” MI according to the study?

Many thanks in advance.



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{ 2 comments }

1 Patrick McCormick April 9, 2005 at 11:18 pm

This paper itself doesn’t define “recent MI”. It appears this cofactor comes from a previous paper that proposed the Outpatient Bleeding Risk Index. Unfortunately, that paper is so old that ScienceDirect doesn’t have full text.

[21]
C.S. Landefeld and L. Goldman, Major bleeding in outpatients treated with warfarin: incidence and prediction by factors known at the start of outpatient therapy. Am J Med 87 (1989), pp. 144–152.

I dug around a little bit with google, but every resource I found just says “recent MI”.

2 Anonymous April 12, 2005 at 12:18 pm

See also (this weeks issue of Archives of IM)http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/7/784

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