Sex Differences in Mortality After Myocardial Infarction
Open Access
- 12 October 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 158 (18) , 2054-2062
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.158.18.2054
Abstract
STUDIES OF sex differences in mortality after myocardial infarction (MI) have consistently indicated that women have higher unadjusted mortality rates, especially for short-term follow-ups (hospitalization or first month).1 However, data are conflicting regarding whether mortality remains higher in women after adjusting for differences in age and other prognostic factors. While in a number of studies2-11 such adjustment resulted in a similar outcome in men and women, in other studies12-18 it failed to account for the higher mortality rates of women.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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