Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study population

• Age > 18 years

• Hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with or without ST elevation (based on the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction) within the previous 4 weeks

• Coronary angiography before or after hospitalization for AMI, in which at least one stenosis > 50% in a major epicardial coronary artery (left anterior descending artery, left circumflex artery, right coronary artery) or a branch thereof with a diameter of at least 2 mm was observed.

• Inability or refusal to provide informed consent

• Age > 80 years

• History of hospitalization due to AMI prior to the present AMI

• History of coronary revascularization prior to the present AMI

• Previous coronary angiography (prior to the present AMI) showing > 50% stenosis in a major epicardial coronary artery