Fayyaz Zafar, Ahmad Masood Akbar, Ayesha Tariq, Mamoona Masood.
Correlation Between Grace And Syntax Scores In Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome.
J Cardiovascular Dis Jan ;14(3):64-7.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: GRACE is a clinical scoring tool used to predict in-hospital mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome. SYNTAX is an angiographic scoring system to decide the optimal revascularization strategy. The objective of the study was to determine the correlation between the two scoring systems in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome. METHODOLOGY: This was a cross sectional study conducted at Mayo Hospital Lahore in 2015-16. A total of 200 patients fulfilling the selection criteria were enrolled in the study. The demographics information like age, gender was noted. Then patients were examined to measure the GRACE risk score at the time of admission. Then patients underwent cardiac catheterization and SYNTAX score was measured using its software. Data was analyzed to see correlation between two scores. RESULTS: Mean age of the study population was 60.34+8.14 years and 62%(n=124) were male. Mean GRACE risk score was 138.56+7.88 and mean SYNTAX score was 28. 69+4.86, the value of ?r? (correlation coefficient) was 0.8514 indicating a strong positive correlation, The value of r2, the coefficient of determination, was 0.7249. CONCLUSION: There is strong correlation between GRACE and SYNTAX scores in patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome.

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