Impact of In-Hospital Bleeding on Post-Discharge Therapies… : Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
from 23,270 patients enrolled in the international PRAISE registry and discharged after ACS were analyzed. A total of 1,060 patients experienced IHB, while 18,765 did not; 3,445 were excluded due to missing data. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality at 1 year. Secondary endpoints included major bleeding, reinfarction, and composite endpoints at 1 year. Patients with IHB were older, more frequently female, and had a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (all p < 0.05). At discharge, IHB patients were less likely to receive optimal medical therapy. At the one-year follow-up, all-cause mortality, major bleeding, and reinfarction were significantly higher in the IHB group (all p 1; all p < 0.001). These associations remained significant even after adjusting for several covariates, except for reinfarction (OR 1.3; 95% CI 0.9–2.11; p = 0.149). Age, female sex, hy