Clinical endpoints and outcome
heart failure, death
AMI, CARDIAC EVENT, HEART FAILURE
All-cause mortality, reinfarction or heart failure associated with rehospitalization within the first year after AMI were counted as major adverse cardiac event (MACE), which was defined as the primary clinical endpoint of this study. In case of multiple occurrences of MACE within one patient, a prioritization was made as follows: death > reinfarction > heart failure. Furthermore, each patient could only account for one MACE.