both registry data1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and secondary analyses of randomized controlled trials5 , 6 , 7 have suggested that the burden of anemia in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes ( acs ) is significant . a recent metaanalysis of 27 studies including 233  144 patients has reported a prevalence of anemia in acs patients close to 20%,8 and current clinical guidelines fail to offer firm recommendations for its concurrent management in the acs setting.9 , 10 
  patients with anemia are older3 , 6 , 7 , 11 with a significantly greater burden of comorbidities such as chronic kidney disease,12 , 13 , 14 diabetes,6 , 13 , 14 heart failure,13 , 15 and more extensive coronary artery disease6 and are less likely to undergo cardiac catheterization.4 , 6 , 11 these adverse clinical characteristics are well known to contribute to adverse outcomes in patients with acs . previous reports have suggested that acs patients with anemia have significantly worse inhospital and longerterm total and cardiac mortality outcomes,5 , 6 , 7 , 16 , 17 heart failure,18 and risk of major bleeding6 and of reinfarction.6 , 8 , 19 some studies have reported that , once differences in age or comorbidity burden between anemic / nonanemic acs cohorts are adjusted for , anemia is no longer an independent predictor of adverse mortality20 or cardiovascular mortality,21 although other studies report that the relationship persists.6 , 7 , 19 , 22 other studies have reported different relationships between anemia and cardiovascular ( cv ) outcomes according to sex , with baseline anemia independently associated with higher rates of allcause and cardiac mortality at 30 days and 1 year in men but not in women.7 
  data derived from secondary analyses from randomized controlled trials ( rct ) have suggested adverse mortality outcomes associated with anemia in patients with acs,5 , 6 , 23 but such rcts often exclude older patients with the most severe comorbid conditions and may therefore underreport the prevalence of anemia and underestimate its prognostic impact . many of the studies that have reported relationships between anemia and adverse outcomes in the setting of acs have not adjusted for or excluded patients with major bleeding events3 , 5 , 24 that may further confound the relationships reported . we have estimated the prevalence of anemia in acs patients and compared their clinical characteristics , management , and clinical outcomes to those without anemia in an unselected national acs cohort derived from the myocardial ischaemia national audit project ( minap ) registry , which collects data on all patients in the uk admitted with a confirmed diagnosis of acs . we also examined the relationship between anemia and short ( 30day ) and longerterm ( 1year ) mortality outcomes in this setting and assessed whether the prognostic impact of anemia relates to its severity . the minap registry collects data on all patients aged 18 or over in the united kingdom who are admitted to all 230 nhs hospital trusts in england and wales with a confirmed diagnosis of an acs . we analyzed data from the registry for patients admitted between january 2006 and december 2010 on this registry and followed them up until august 2011 . participants were included in the current study if they had a diagnosis of any acs ( stsegment elevation myocardial infarction [ stemi ] , nonstsegment elevation myocardial infarction [ nstemi ] , or unstable angina ) determined by the medical team at time of discharge . mortality outcome was ascertained by linkage through the office of national statistics.25 
  the minap data set collects standardized data on prehospital and inhospital care for all acs admissions from all 230 nhs  trusts in england and wales and is part of the nhs data  dictionary ( http://www.hqip.org.uk/minap-2013-report/ ) . the details of development and initial findings are reported elsewhere.26 
  in the current study variables included in the analyses were hemoglobin at the time of admission with an acs , age , sex , smoking status , peak troponin levels , hyperlipidemia , hypertension , prior angina , prior myocardial infarction , prior heart failure , prior stroke , peripheral vascular disease , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , diabetes , renal failure , prior percutaneous coronary intervention , prior coronary artery bypass graft , prior medications ( angiotensinconverting enzyme [ ace ] inhibitor , blocker , statin , clopidogrel , aspirin ) , clinical diagnosis ( unstable angina , nstemi , stemi ) , discharge medications ( ace inhibitor , blocker , statin , clopidogrel , aspirin ) , angiography , inhospital bleeding , and mortality outcomes in hospital and within 30 days and 1 year . world health organization ( who ) hemoglobin thresholds were used to define anemia as < 13  g / dl for men and < 12  g / dl for women . multiple imputations by chained equations in stata version 13.0 were used to impute missing values for variables where possible . we describe baseline variables according to whether they were missing or nonmissing in tables , and details of participant inclusion are shown graphically . descriptive statistics are presented for baseline variables and outcome according to anemia status and sex . associations between anemia status and individual variables were tested using 1way analysis of variance for continuous variables and chisquared test for categorical variables . we used multiple logistic regression with adjustments for baseline variables to determine factors associated with anemia . the same regression methods were used to determine the adjusted odds of 30day mortality with 1  g / dl incremental hemoglobin increase from < 10 to 18  g / dl for men and from < 9 to 17  g / dl for women . additional analyses were performed to determine the adjusted odds ratio of mortality at 30 days and 1 year for anemic compared to nonanemic groups for the whole cohort , the maleonly cohort , femaleonly cohort , nstemi cohort , stemi cohort , and subgroups where bleeding was excluded . the baseline variables of the group of participants who bled and did not bleed were also compared . severity of anemia was examined by stratifying the cohort by sexspecific hemoglobin cutoffs ( hb < 10  g / dl , hb 1011  g / dl , hb 1112 g / dl for men and hb < 9  g / dl , hb 910 g / dl for women ) . to better control for baseline differences across the anemic and nonanemic groups , further analysis was performed using propensity score matching ( mi estimate : teffects psmatch ) to estimate average treatment effects ( ate ) . although multiple regression is the most widely used method to control for measured confounders , it can be inadequate when the 2 comparator groups ( anemia vs no anemia in our analyses ) are very different across key confounders . propensity score matching can be a better approach in such extreme scenarios and can thus serve as a useful sensitivity analysis . propensity scores were calculated using multiple logistic regression , and then 1:1 matching with replacement ( ie , including all cases and controls ) was performed prior to simple logistic regression models to obtain the ate . the current study obtained the ethical approval from the faculty of medicine & health sciences research ethics committee , university of east anglia . informed consent from participants was waived as data were routinely collected , and only anonymized data were used in the study . the minap registry collects data on all patients aged 18 or over in the united kingdom who are admitted to all 230 nhs hospital trusts in england and wales with a confirmed diagnosis of an acs . we analyzed data from the registry for patients admitted between january 2006 and december 2010 on this registry and followed them up until august 2011 . participants were included in the current study if they had a diagnosis of any acs ( stsegment elevation myocardial infarction [ stemi ] , nonstsegment elevation myocardial infarction [ nstemi ] , or unstable angina ) determined by the medical team at time of discharge . the minap data set collects standardized data on prehospital and inhospital care for all acs admissions from all 230 nhs  trusts in england and wales and is part of the nhs data  dictionary ( http://www.hqip.org.uk/minap-2013-report/ ) . the details of development and initial findings are reported elsewhere.26 
  in the current study variables included in the analyses were hemoglobin at the time of admission with an acs , age , sex , smoking status , peak troponin levels , hyperlipidemia , hypertension , prior angina , prior myocardial infarction , prior heart failure , prior stroke , peripheral vascular disease , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , diabetes , renal failure , prior percutaneous coronary intervention , prior coronary artery bypass graft , prior medications ( angiotensinconverting enzyme [ ace ] inhibitor , blocker , statin , clopidogrel , aspirin ) , clinical diagnosis ( unstable angina , nstemi , stemi ) , discharge medications ( ace inhibitor , blocker , statin , clopidogrel , aspirin ) , angiography , inhospital bleeding , and mortality outcomes in hospital and within 30 days and 1 year . world health organization ( who ) hemoglobin thresholds were used to define anemia as < 13  g / dl for men and < 12  g / dl for women . multiple imputations by chained equations in stata version 13.0 were used to impute missing values for variables where possible . we describe baseline variables according to whether they were missing or nonmissing in tables , and details of participant inclusion are shown graphically . descriptive statistics are presented for baseline variables and outcome according to anemia status and sex . associations between anemia status and individual variables were tested using 1way analysis of variance for continuous variables and chisquared test for categorical variables . we used multiple logistic regression with adjustments for baseline variables to determine factors associated with anemia . the same regression methods were used to determine the adjusted odds of 30day mortality with 1  g / dl incremental hemoglobin increase from < 10 to 18  g / dl for men and from < 9 to 17  g / dl for women . additional analyses were performed to determine the adjusted odds ratio of mortality at 30 days and 1 year for anemic compared to nonanemic groups for the whole cohort , the maleonly cohort , femaleonly cohort , nstemi cohort , stemi cohort , and subgroups where bleeding was excluded . the baseline variables of the group of participants who bled and did not bleed were also compared . severity of anemia was examined by stratifying the cohort by sexspecific hemoglobin cutoffs ( hb < 10  g / dl , hb 1011  g / dl , hb 1112  g / dl , hb 1213 g / dl for men and hb < 9  g / dl , hb 910 g / dl for women ) . to better control for baseline differences across the anemic and nonanemic groups , further analysis was performed using propensity score matching ( mi estimate : teffects psmatch ) to estimate average treatment effects ( ate ) . although multiple regression is the most widely used method to control for measured confounders , it can be inadequate when the 2 comparator groups ( anemia vs no anemia in our analyses ) are very different across key confounders . propensity score matching can be a better approach in such extreme scenarios and can thus serve as a useful sensitivity analysis . propensity scores were calculated using multiple logistic regression , and then 1:1 matching with replacement ( ie , including all cases and controls ) was performed prior to simple logistic regression models to obtain the ate . the current study obtained the ethical approval from the faculty of medicine & health sciences research ethics committee , university of east anglia . informed consent from participants was waived as data were routinely collected , and only anonymized data were used in the study . there were a total of 424  848 participants in the minap cohort between january 2006 and december 2010 who were followed up until august 2011 . figure  s1 shows the flow diagram of participant inclusion , and comparison of characteristics between those with and without available data on hb did not show any material differences ( table  s1 ) . the prevalence of anemia in this cohort was 71  223/256  744 ( 27.7% ) . after multiple imputations the sample size of the complete data set with all imputed variables was 256  744 . the descriptive statistics of baseline variables in the included cohort , sorted by anemia status , are shown in table  1 . the anemic cohort was significantly older , with a higher proportion of smokers ( 85% vs 68% , p<0.001 ) , prior hypertension ( 59% vs 48% , p<0.001 ) , angina ( 43% vs 27% , p<0.001 ) , myocardial infarction ( 38% vs 23% , p<0.001 ) , prior heart failure ( 12% vs 4% , p<0.001 ) , stroke ( 14% vs 7% , p<0.001 ) , peripheral vascular disease ( 8% vs 3% , p<0.001 ) , copd ( 18% vs 14% , p<0.001 ) , diabetes ( 31% vs 16% , p<0.001 ) , and renal failure ( 19% vs 4% , p<0.001 ) . participants who were anemic were more likely to have aspirin and clopidogrel prior to admission ( 7% vs 5% , p<0.001 ) and less likely to be prescribed dual antiplatelet therapy on discharge ( 75% vs 79% , p<0.001 ) . participants whose anemia occurred in the context of a bleeding complication were more likely to be female , to be on aspirin before admission and on discharge ( 30% vs 28% , p<0.001 ) , to have stemi diagnosis ( 52% vs 38% , p<0.001 ) , to be less likely to receive angiography ( 26% vs 38% , p<0.001 ) and more likely to die at 30  days ( 6% versus 3% , p<0.001 ) and 1  year ( 12% vs 8% , p<0.001 ) ( table  s2 ) . similar rates of angiography were performed in the anemic versus nonanemic cohort , but patients with anemia were significantly less likely to be prescribed secondary prevention medications postdischarge . the difference in crude mortality rates between the anemic and nonanemic groups increased with longer followup . baseline characteristic of the minap cohort according to anemia status bmi indicates body mass index ; cabg , coronary artery bypass graft ; copd , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ; minap , myocardial ischemia national audit project ; nstemi , nonstsegment elevation myocardial infarction ; pci , percutaneous coronary intervention ; pvd , peripheral vascular disease ; stemi , stsegment elevation myocardial infarction . results reported as mean ( sd ) for continuous variables and n ( % ) for categorical variables . logistic regression ( continuous variables ) , multiple logistic regression was used to determine the independent factors associated with the presence of anemia at baseline ( table  2 ) . the most significant associations were observed with presence of peripheral vascular disease ( or 1.427 , 95% ci 1.3621.496 , p<0.001 ) , diabetes mellitus ( or  1.786 , 95% ci 1.7421.832 , p<0.001 ) , and renal disease ( or 3.058 , 95% ci 2.9623.158 , p<0.001 ) . significant factors associated with anemia ( n=422  855 ) : logistic regression modela 
  cabg indicates coronary artery bypass graft ; copd , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ; pci , percutaneous coronary intervention ; pvd , peripheral vascular disease . the adjusted odds of mortality by incremental ( 1  g / dl ) increase in hemoglobin are shown in figure  1 . lower hemoglobin values were associated with significantly higher mortality with a nonsignificant trend toward higher mortality in those patients with elevated hemoglobin values . adjusted odds of mortality at 30  days according to hemoglobin levels for men and women . adjusted for age , sex , current or exsmokers , troponin , hyperlipidemia , hypertension , prior angina , prior myocardial infarction , prior heart failure , stroke , peripheral vascular disease , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , diabetes , renal failure , prior percutaneous coronary intervention , prior coronary artery bypass graft , medications prior to admission , diagnosis , medications at discharge and angiography . the odds of mortality associated with the presence of anemia following adjustment for baseline covariates are shown in table  3 . we observed that there was a ~1.3fold increase in odds of 30day mortality ( or 1.281 , 95% ci 1.2171.350 , p<0.001 ) and 1year ( or 1.311 , 95% ci 1.2741.348 , p<0.001 ) mortality , respectively , with anemia after adjustment for potential confounders . similar significant increases in mortality with anemia were observed for men ( 30day mortality or 1.298 , 95% ci 1.2171.384 , p<0.001 ; 1year mortality or 1.354 , 95% ci 1.2991.411 , p<0.001 ) and women ( 30day mortality or 1.255 , 95% ci 1.1461.374 , p<0.001 ; 1year mortality or 1.252 , 95% ci 1.1981.309 , p<0.001 ) as well as diagnosis of nstemi ( 30day mortality or 1.291 , 95% ci 1.2131.374 , p<0.001 ; 1year mortality or 1.326 , 95% ci 1.2811.374 , p<0.001 ) and stemi ( 30day mortality or 1.269 , 95% ci 1.1631.384 , p<0.001 ; 1year mortality or 1.284 , 95% ci 1.2841.352 , p<0.001 ) . in order to eliminate the potential confounding influence of major bleeding complications on the relationship between anemia and mortality , we repeated the analysis following exclusion of patients with major bleeding complications , and similar results were recorded ( 30day mortality or 1.279 , 95% ci 1.2131.348 , p<0.001 ; 1year mortality or 1.309 , 95% ci 1.2711.347 , p<0.001 ) . furthermore , a sensitivity analysis was undertaken in patients in whom hb values were recorded at baseline ( 257  999 patients ) , and similar independent factors associated with anemia ( table  s3 ) and mortality outcomes associated with anemia ( table  s4 ) were observed . multivariate association between anemia and mortality : logistic regression models nstemi indicates nonstsegment elevation myocardial infarction ; stemi , stsegment elevation myocardial infarction . propensity score matched analysis is shown in table  4 , and anemia is associated with significant increase in mortality at both 30  days and 1  year after adjustments for propensity score ( 30day mortality coefficient 0.0080 , 95% ci 0.00450.0114 , p<0.001 ; 1year mortality coefficient 0.0173 , 95% ci 0.01280.0218 , p<0.001 ) . propensity score matching analysis on 10 imputed data sets , reporting average treatment effects ( ate ) there were also differences in baseline characteristics according to sex ( table  5 ) . most notably , females were younger ( mean age 74 vs 67  years , p<0.001 ) , but more were smokers ( 79% vs 70% , p<0.001 ) and hypertensive ( 56% vs 47% , p<0.001 ) . however , medication at discharge was higher in men , and women had a higher proportion of patients with adverse outcomes . baseline characteristic of the minap cohort in a single imputed data set according to sex bmi indicates body mass index ; cabg , coronary artery bypass graft ; copd , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ; minap , myocardial ischemia national audit project ; nstemi , nonstsegment elevation myocardial infarction ; pci , percutaneous coronary intervention ; pvd , peripheral vascular disease ; stemi , stsegment elevation myocardial infarction . results reported as mean ( sd ) for continuous variables and n ( % ) for categorical variables . logistic regression ( continuous variables ) , the sexspecific adjusted odds of mortality by incremental ( 1  g / dl ) increase in hemoglobin is shown in figure  2 . for both sexes , lower hemoglobin values were associated with significantly higher mortality , but high values of hemoglobin were associated with higher mortality only in men and not in women . similar results were observed if patients with bleeding were excluded ( figure  s2 ) . adjusted odds of mortality at 30  days according to hemoglobin levels and sex . adjusted for age , current or exsmokers , troponin , hyperlipidemia , hypertension , prior angina , prior myocardial infarction , prior heart failure , stroke , peripheral vascular disease , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , diabetes , renal failure , prior percutaneous coronary intervention , prior coronary artery bypass graft , medications prior to admission , diagnosis , medications at discharge , and angiography . in terms of severity of anemia there was an increase in mortality at both 30  days and 1  year with reduced hemoglobin , which ranged from ~1.2 to 1.3fold increase in odds of mortality for hb 12 to 13  g / dl to a ~1.4 to 1.5fold increase for hb < 10  g / dl for men ( table  6 ) . our analysis is the largest analysis to study the prevalence , clinical characteristics , and outcomes associated with anemia in an unselected national cohort of acs patients in the united kingdom . we have observed that more than 1 in 4 patients presenting with acs are anemic and that these patients are older , have a greater prevalence of comorbid conditions , and are less likely to receive evidencebased therapies shown to improve clinical outcomes . finally , our analysis suggests that anemia is independently associated with adverse inhospital and longerterm mortality outcomes , with a reverse jshaped relationship between hb levels and both short and longer mortality outcomes observed . our observed prevalence of anemia of 28% is greater than that reported in data derived from rcts reporting rates of between 10% and 25%,5 , 6 , 7 , 23 although registry data reveal significantly higher prevalences.4 , 12 , 27 for example , an analysis of 78  974 medicare beneficiaries aged 65  years or older hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction revealed a prevalence of anemia of 43%.12 we have observed that acs patients with anemia are older , have a greater prevalence of comorbid conditions , and are less likely to receive evidencebased therapies for the treatment of acs , in agreement with previous literature.5 , 6 , 7 , 19 , 21 
  in the current analysis we report that the presence of anemia is independently associated with an ~50% increased risk of mortality in the short and long term and that this prognostic impact is observed in both men and women , in contrast to the findings of a secondary analysis of the horizonsami trial that failed to demonstrate an association between anemia and increased risk of mortality in women.7 we have observed a reverse jshaped relationship between decreasing hb values and 30day mortality , with a doseresponse effect with progressively lower odds of survival with more profound degrees of anemia in both men and women . similar reverse jshaped relationships are seen between hb levels and cv death and the composite endpoint of cv death , myocardial infarction , or recurrent ischemic events in some studies,21 although other studies have not revealed such statistically significant relationships in either inhospital cardiac mortality16 or longerterm mortality.1 
  previous studies have reported that anemia is independently associated with adverse clinical outcomes , but many of these studies did not report whether patients with bleeding events were excluded from their analyses , as it is well documented that major bleeding is independently associated with mortality in the acs setting,28 , 29 , 30 which might have confounded any reported relationships between the presence of anemia and mortality . in the current analysis we report anemia independently predicts adverse mortality outcomes and that the jshaped relationship between hb level and mortality persists even after exclusion of patients with bleeding events . there are several biological and clinical reasons why anemia may lead to worse clinical outcomes in patients with acs . in the setting of acs , anemia might worsen ischemia by decreasing the oxygen delivery to the jeopardized myocardium and increase myocardial oxygen demand due to greater cardiac output to maintain adequate systemic oxygen delivery.31 , 32 clinically , patients with anemia are often underprescribed antiplatelet therapy due to bleeding concerns ; for example , in our current analysis clopidogrel was prescribed in 73% of patients without anemia and 66% with anemia ( p<0.001 ) , whereas in the cadillac trial 18% of patients with anemia at the time of their acs were no longer receiving aspirin at 1  year,23 which might contribute to increased cardiovascular events . analysis of the acuity trial suggests that patients with anemia were less likely to undergo percutaneous coronary intervention ( pci ) and more likely to be medically managed , which may further contribute to worse cardiovascular outcomes in this group.6 finally , anemia may be a manifestation of numerous chronic disease states , and the presence of anemia is merely a marker of poorer outcomes in patients with chronic diseases . our analysis suggests that anemia is independently associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients presenting with acs . there is a lack of clarity in contemporary guideline recommendations as to whether such patients with anemia should be transfused and the optimal transfusion strategy.33 the american association of blood banks recommendation for patients presenting with acs is  no recommendation for or against a liberal or restrictive transfusion threshold for hospitalized , hemodynamically stable patients with acute coronary syndrome.33 furthermore , the crit ( conservative vs liberal red cell transfusion in acute myocardial infarction ) randomized pilot trial34 demonstrated that patients with acs and a hematocrit level < 30% who were randomized to a liberal transfusion arm had a significantly higher composite endpoint of inhospital death , recurrent myocardial infarction , or congestive heart failure than those who underwent more restrictive transfusion practice ( 38% vs 13% ; p=0.046 ) . in contrast , in the mint ( a multicenter , randomized study of argatroban versus heparin as adjunct to tissue plasminogen activator [ tpa ] in acute myocardial infarction : myocardial infarction with novastan and tpa ) pilot study undertaken in 110 patients presenting with an acs or stable angina with anemia undergoing cardiac catheterization , patients randomized to a liberal blood transfusion strategy had 50% lower primary outcome rates of death , myocardial infarction , and unscheduled revascularization compared to those patients randomized to a restrictive transfusion strategy , with lower 30day mortality too . a recent metaanalysis of 10 studies consisting mainly of registry studies including 203  665 patients has shown a close to 3fold independent increase in the risk of mortality associated with a liberal blood transfusion strategy in the ami setting with metaregression adjusting for a history of bleeding or baseline hemoglobin level revealing a similar increased risk , indicating a significant risk for blood transfusion over and above that associated with bleeding or anemia,35 with similar findings reported in the pci setting.36 
  our study has some limitations . the minap data set requires the recording of hb within 24  hours of admission . many of these hb values , particularly in the setting of hemodynamically unstable nstemi or stemi treated with primary pci , may be postpci and may reflect the influence of acute bleeding complications and not reflect chronic anemia . nevertheless , even following exclusion of patients who sustained bleeding complications during their inhospital course , the relationships that we examined remained unchanged . we report an association between anemia and inhospital and longerterm mortality , but we can not infer causality . although it would be interesting to know whether anemia was associated with cardiac mortality , we were unable to determine the cause of death for participants . we have adjusted for differences in baseline characteristics between the anemic and nonanemic cohorts , but other unmeasured confounders may be contributing to the adverse clinical outcomes associated with anemia that we report . another limitation was the missing data , which varied in extent depending on the study variable , and we tried to approximate these values using multiple imputations to impute the missing values . finally , the minap data set does not record the receipt of blood transfusions , which may contribute to the adverse clinical outcomes reported.35 in conclusion , this is the largest study of the prevalence , clinical characteristics , and outcomes associated with anemia in an unselected national cohort of acs patients in the united kingdom . we report a significant prevalence of anemia in a contemporary acs cohort , with approximately 1 in 4 patients presenting with acs being anemic , and that these patients are older , have a greater prevalence of comorbid conditions , and are less likely to receive evidencebased therapies shown to improve clinical outcomes . finally , our findings suggest that anemia is independently associated with adverse 30day and longerterm mortality outcomes , with a reverse jshaped relationship between hb levels and mortality outcomes observed in both men and women . the clinical effectiveness of correcting anemia routinely in acs has not been widely explored , and there is considerable uncertainty in the value of such an approach . mamas , zaman , and myint conceived and planned the study . kwok and kontopantelis analyzed the data . mamas and myint is the guarantor . myint and zaman are copis of the minapolder age project . the project was funded by the halley stewart trust and the north staffordshire medical institute . mrc health eresearch centre grant mr / k006665/1 supported the time and facilities of kontopantelis . this work was undertaken by the research team and funded by the sir halley stewart trust , medical research council , and north staffordshire medical institute . the views expressed within this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funders . table  s1 . comparison of patients with missing and no missing hemoglobin values 
 table  s2 . significant multivariate predictors of anemia in patients in whom baseline hemoglobin values were recorded ( n=256  744 ) 
 table  s4 . sensitivity analysis of multivariate association between anemia and mortality in patients in whom baseline hemoglobin values were recorded 
 figure  s1 . figure  s2 . adjusted odds of mortality at 30  days according to hemoglobin levels and sex with exclusion of participants with bleed outcome .