IJCS | Volume 32, Nº2, March/April 2019

121 Figure 1 - Distribution of patients (quartiles) by C-reactive protein (CRP) levels; p = 0.001747; non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test. Figure 2 - Association of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and age with in-hospital mortality. * OR: Odds ratio; 95% CI: 95% Confidence interval. Milano et al. C-reactive protein as a predictor of mortality Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2019;32(2)118-124 Original Article Our results also demonstrated that in-hospital mortality after STEMI was strongly associated with elderly patients. Previous studies have investigated the relationship between age and death in patients with AMI and showed that age is an important predictor of mortality in these cases. 13 In England, one third to half of the patients admitted to a hospital with acute myocardial infarction are