GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

摘要: Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Although coronary more prevalent men, it accounts for approximately one third all deaths women death over age 50 years. 3 Several hospital community-based studies as well large clinical trials have compared prognosis men after myocardial infarction. These shown that sustaining infarction higher unadjusted during hospitalization within first month their index event. 62 This article examines whether apparent worse short-term can be explained by differences epidemiology artery its treatment.