Prognosis

The risk of dying is increased with cardiovascular risk factors 

• hypertension ^b
• smoking ^b
• diabetes mellitus ^{a b}

Why?

Cardiovascular risk factors increase the risk of dying

Patient	Prognostic Factor	Outcome	CER	OR (95% CI)	NNF+ (95% CI)
myocardial infarction b	hypertension independent	death from heart disease at 2 years	15%	2.04 (1.36 to 3.05)	9 (5 to 23)
myocardial infarction a	male and diabetes independent	death at 12 months	26%	1.38 (1.18 to 1.61)	15 (10 to 31)
	female and diabetes independent			1.86 (1.40 to 2.46)	7 (5 to 14)