Hazard ratios were 1.35 and 2.06 for moderate and extreme pain measured at one year after hospital discharge<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
By Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n
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THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Pain is prevalent one year after myocardial infarction (MI) and is associated with an increased risk for all-cause mortality, according to a study published online Aug. 16 in the Journal of the American Heart Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n Linda Vixner, P.T., Ph.D., from the School of Health and Welfare at Dalarna University in Falun, Sweden, and colleagues collected data from 18,376 patients aged younger than 75 years with a registered MI event during 2004 to 2013. In secondary prevention clinics, self-reported levels of experienced pain were recorded at one year after hospital discharge. All-cause mortality data were collected up to 8.5 years after the one-year visit.<\/p>\n The researchers found that 38.2 and 4.5 percent of included patients reported moderate and extreme pain, respectively. A total of 1,067 deaths occurred in the cohort. For moderate and extreme pain, the adjusted hazard ratios were 1.35 and 2.06, respectively. Compared with smoking, pain was a stronger predictor of mortality.<\/p>\n “Clinicians managing patients after MI should recognize the need to consider experienced pain as a prognostic factor comparable to persistent smoking, and to address this when designing individually adjusted cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention treatments,” the authors write. <\/p>\n