Why Patients in China Refuse Standard Treatment for a Type of Heart Attack (IMAGE)

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Why Patients in China Refuse Standard Treatment for a Type of Heart Attack

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Percutaneous coronary intervention is the recommended procedure after ST-elevation myocardial infarction, but some patients refuse to undergo it. Researchers from Shandong University, China, have identified some demographic and clinical features associated with such treatment refusal.

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