“…Nevertheless, this code has been previously used in multiple studies of type 2 myocardial infarction from the administrative databases. [16][17][18] Second, the NRD is an administrative database, and hence prone to miscoded/missing dataset, lacks granularity, and robust adjudication of clinical outcomes. Third, since this is a retrospective observational study, we cannot exclude the possibility of unmeasured confounders influencing the results despite our rigorous multivariate adjustment.…”