Heightened risk of cardiac events following percutaneous coronary intervention for cocaine-associated myocardial infarction.

Arch Med Sci · 2020 · PMC6963151 · PMID 32051707

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closest p · 1.8× alpha

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approached significancep = 0.09so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Although the odds for events 1-year post PCI were not increased (OR = 2.0, 95% CI: 0.9–4.3), the p -value approached significance in this small sample ( p = 0.09).

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nearing significanceno p-value reported

Although we did not find a statistically significant difference in the 1-year rate of death or recurrent infarction between our study groups, we suspect that this result may be due to our small sample size because the unadjusted 1-year event rate was quite high and the p -value was nearing significance.

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