Sex differences in discharge destination following acute myocardial infarction

sex differences in acute myocardial infarction

Sex differences in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the common cause of mortality and disability worldwide. Usually women with CAD are older and have more risk factors than men. If they have diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia and metabolic syndrome, they would be at greater risk of CAD than men (1). Experimental studies have shown that gender has an important role in cardiovascular physiology and pathology. On the ot...

Sex Differences in Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Results: In-hospital mortality decreased markedly between 1994 and 2006 in all patients but more so in women than men. The mortality reduction in 2006 relative to 1994 was largest in women younger than 55 years (52.9%) and lowest in men younger than 55 years (33.3%). In patients younger than 55 years, the absolute decrease in mortality was 3 times larger in women than men (2.7% vs 0.9%). As a r...

Sex differences in survival after myocardial infarction in Sweden; data from the Swedish National Acute Myocardial Infarction Register.

AIMS Women, particularly younger women, hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction have been found to have poorer prognosis than men. A large proportion of deaths due to myocardial infarction, however, occur in the pre-hospital phase. We set out to analyse age-specific sex differences in survival after myocardial infarction at different time intervals from the onset of acute myocardial infar...

Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction

To improve the specificity of biochemical markers of myocardial infarction (MI) a method to measure cardiac troponin-I (CTn-I) was developed. CTn-I is a protein unique to cardiac muscle and is released after MI. Consecutive 150 patients admitted to the coronary care unit was studied. Value of CTn-I was determined in all samples. CTn-I concentration in the MI patients group was increased com...