Sex differences in myocardial infarction and rupture

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...

Myocardial infarction: sex differences in symptoms reported to emergency dispatch.

BACKGROUND Emergency management of myocardial infarction (MI) is time-critical, because improved patient outcomes are associated with reduced time from symptom onset to definitive care. Previous studies have identified that women are less likely to present with chest pain. OBJECTIVE We sought to measure the effect of sex on symptoms reported to the ambulance dispatch and ambulance times for M...

Sex differences in the effectiveness of statins after myocardial infarction.

BACKGROUND We sought to investigate the sex differences in the effectiveness of statins in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS Linking hospital discharge and drug claims databases from Quebec, Canada (1998-2004), we identified statin users (n = 14 710) and non-users (n = 23 833) discharged from hospital after an AMI-related hospital stay and followed up for as long as 7 y...

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...