Archives of cardiovascular diseases
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Arch Cardiovasc Dis · Jun 2013
Multicenter StudyAnaemia to predict outcome in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
Owing to the heterogeneous population of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), risk stratification with tools such as the GRACE risk score is recommended to guide therapeutic management and improve outcome. ⋯ Anaemia provides independent additional prognostic information to the GRACE score. Combining anaemia with the GRACE score refines its predictive value, which often overestimates the risk.