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Figure 1 (A) Kaplan-Meier curves relating short-term and long-term outcomes to recurrent myocardial infarction (MI). Most deaths among patients with early reinfarction occurred early, and the curves did not shift between 30 days and 2 years of follow-up. (B) Kaplan-Meier estimated mortality rates up to two years by in-hospital reinfarction, stratified by Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction risk score (TRS). Mortality was higher in patients with reinfarction in the low, intermediate, and high TRS groups. In the analysis adjusting for age, gender, anterior MI, pulse rate on admission, history of hypertension, previous angina, current smoker, previous MI, weight, and time from symptom onset to treatment, the p value was <0.001 in each of the TRS groups.