Aspirin-Myocardial Infarction Study (AMIS)

Summary

To determine whether the daily administration of 1 gm of aspirin to individuals with a documented myocardial infarction would result in a significant reduction in mortality over a three year period.

Timeline

Start

1974-10

Primary completion

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Completion

1979-08

Publications

• Background Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Research Group: A Study of Aspirin in Patients with Myocardial Infarction. Prostaglandins in Hematology. Spectrum Publications Inc, New York, l977, 36l-370.
• Background An intervention study-the aspirin myocardial infarction study. Lipids. 1977 Jan;12(1):59-63. doi: 10.1007/BF02532973.
• Background A randomized, controlled trial of aspirin in persons recovered from myocardial infarction. JAMA. 1980 Feb 15;243(7):661-9.
• Background Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Research Group: Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study: Design, Methods and Baseline Results. DHEW Pub. No. (NIH) 80-2l06, l980.
• Background The aspirin myocardial infarction study: final results. The Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study research group. Circulation. 1980 Dec;62(6 Pt 2):V79-84.
• Background Wasserman AG, Bren GB, Ross AM, Richardson DW, Hutchinson RG, Rios JC. Prognostic implications of diagnostic Q waves after myocardial infarction. Circulation. 1982 Jun;65(7):1451-5. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.65.7.1451.
• Background Goldstein S, Friedman L, Hutchinson R, Canner P, Romhilt D, Schlant R, Sobrino R, Verter J, Wasserman A. Timing, mechanism and clinical setting of witnessed deaths in postmyocardial infarction patients. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1984 May;3(5):1111-7. doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(84)80167-9.
• Background Mattson ME, Curb JD, McArdle R. Participation in a clinical trial: the patients' point of view. Control Clin Trials. 1985 Jun;6(2):156-67. doi: 10.1016/0197-2456(85)90121-7.
• Background Shekelle RB, Gale M, Norusis M. Type A score (Jenkins Activity Survey) and risk of recurrent coronary heart disease in the aspirin myocardial infarction study. Am J Cardiol. 1985 Aug 1;56(4):221-5. doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(85)90838-0.
• Background Frost PH, Verter J, Miller D. Serum lipids and lipoproteins after myocardial infarction: associations with cardiovascular mortality and experience in the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study. Am Heart J. 1987 Jun;113(6):1356-64. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(87)90648-x.
• Background Schoenberger JA. Recruitment experience in the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study. Control Clin Trials. 1987 Dec;8(4 Suppl):74S-78S. doi: 10.1016/0197-2456(87)90009-2.
• Background Furberg CD, Friedman LM, MacMahon SW: Women as Participants in Trials of the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Part II. Secondary Prevention: The Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial and the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study, in: Coronary Heart Disease in Women. ED Eaker, B Packard, NK Wenger, TB Carkson, HA Tyroler (Eds). New York, Haymarket Doyma, pp 241-246, 1987.
• Background Howard J, Whittemore AS, Hoover JJ, Panos M. How blind was the patient blind in AMIS? Clin Pharmacol Ther. 1982 Nov;32(5):543-53. doi: 10.1038/clpt.1982.201.

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