Study population
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
This is a single-center prospective observational study conducted at the largest cardiac care center in Pakistan, namely the “National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Karachi, Pakistan” between January 2022 and June 2022. The ethical review board of the hospital approved the study proposal (ERC-01/2022), and verbal consent was obtained from all the patients or attendants as per the Declaration of Helsinki. For this study, we analyzed prospectively collected data from the cohort of patients diagnosed with STEMI undergoing primary PCI. This contemporary cohort of STEMI patients consisted of adult patients (≥ 18 years) of either gender who shifted to the cardiac catheterization laboratory for primary PCI as per the hospital protocol. Patients who refused to participate in the study were excluded.