Socioeconomic Crisis and Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Messinia, Greece
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v9i1%20Sup.657Keywords:
acute myocardial infarction, financial crisis, epidemiologyAbstract
In the last 5 years Greece is facing the worst socioeconomic crisis since the end of the Second World War. The purpose of the current study was to gather all the incident cases of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) that were hospitalized in the General Hospital of Kalamata during the last 10 years. Our results suggest that the prolonged financial crisis may have led to a higher incidence of AMI in the population of Messinia, Greece.
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