Is the 4MGS a Useful Outcome Measure Post-PPCI

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02261324

2013LF001H

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to assess usual walking speed (4-metre gait speed) in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction and to assess whether this can predict future cardiovascular events and death.

Enrollment: 560 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any patient hospitalised with an acute myocardial infarction who has undergone primary percutaneous coronary intervention
• Capacity to consent
• Able to walk
• Age over 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Significant co-morbidities that would limit exercise capacity or make exercise unsafe (e.g. neuromuscular disease, severe hip/lower limb joint pain, peripheral vascular disease, lower limb amputation)