Thursday, February 23, 2012

Women at higher risk of death due to heart attack

Posted by: Ramesh Venkatraman

Results of a new study reveal that women (particularly younger women) are more likely than men to present without chest pain following a heart attack. Hospitalized women also show higher mortality (death) rates than men within the same age group. Excerpts (Table) from a new observational study from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction, 1994-2006, of 1,143,513 registry patients (481,581 women and 661,932 men):


 Ref: Canto JG, et al. JAMA. 2012;307(8):813-822.

MI = Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)

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