@article {Nge001861, author = {Andrew Kei-Yan Ng and Pauline Yeung Ng and April Ip and Lap Tin Lam and Chung-Wah Siu}, title = {Trade-off of major bleeding versus myocardial infarction on mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention}, volume = {9}, number = {1}, elocation-id = {e001861}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.1136/openhrt-2021-001861}, publisher = {Archives of Disease in childhood}, abstract = {Background The choice of antithrombotic therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is heavily dependent on the relative trade-off between major bleeding (MB) and myocardial infarction (MI). However, the mortality trade-off was mostly described in Western populations and remained unknown in East Asians.Method This was a retrospective cohort study from 14 hospitals under the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong between 2004 and 2017. Participants were patients undergoing first-time PCI and survived for the first year. Patients were stratified by the presence of MB and MI during the first year. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality between 1 and 5 years after PCI. The secondary endpoint was cardiovascular mortality.Results A total of 32 180 patients were analysed. After adjustment for baseline characteristics and using patients with neither events as reference, the risks of all-cause mortality were increased in patients with MI only (HR, 1.63; 95\% CI 1.45 to 1.84; p\<0.001), further increased in those with MB only (HR, 2.11, 95\% CI 1.86 to 2.39; p\<0.001) and highest in those with both (HR, 2.92; 95\% CI 2.39 to 3.56; p\<0.001). In both Cox regression and propensity score analyses, MB had a stronger impact on all-cause mortality than MI, but similar impact on cardiovascular mortality.Conclusions Both MB and MI within the first year after PCI were associated with increase in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Chinese patients, but the impact was stronger with MB.Data are available upon reasonable request.}, URL = {https://openheart.bmj.com/content/9/1/e001861}, eprint = {https://openheart.bmj.com/content/9/1/e001861.full.pdf}, journal = {Open Heart} }