Race, Sex, Poverty, and the Medical Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly
- 8 August 2000
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 102 (6) , 642-648
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.102.6.642
Abstract
Background—Race, sex, and poverty are associated with the use of diagnostic cardiac catheterization and coronary revascularization during treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, th...Keywords
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