Factors Associated with Changing Sex Ratio of myocardial Infarction
- 1 July 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 98 (1) , 80-83
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1956.00250250086011
Abstract
In a recent epdemiological study of autopsied patients with acute myocardial infarction, at Washington University, it was discovered that a shift has occurred in recent years in the relative incidence of the disease in the two sexes.1In the period 1910-1939 the incidence of acute myocardial infarction was twice as great in men as it was in women. In the period 1940-1954 the incidence was not significantly greater in men than in women. The results in a portion of the latter period have been confirmed by Acher, Burchell, and Edwards,* who found a similar ratio (1:1) between the sexes among the patients with acute myocardial infarction autopsied at Mayo Clinic during the period 1946-1950. Such a shift is of profound significance and warrants a careful search for factors that may be responsible. The purpose of this report is to present the results of a study of various factors associatedThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: