Open AccessSex Differences in Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Viola Vaccarino,
Lori Parsons,
Eric D. Peterson,
William J. Rogers,
Catarina I. Kiefe,
John G. Canto
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.332
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , myocardial infarction , odds ratio , demography , case fatality rate , comorbidity , mortality rate , population , epidemiology , environmental health , sociology
Previous studies have shown that women younger than 55 years have higher hospital mortality rates after acute myocardial infarction (MI) than age-matched men. We examined whether such mortality differences have decreased in recent years.
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