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- Title
Sex Differences in Mortality Following Acute Coronary Syndromes.
- Authors
Berger, Jeffrey S.; Elliott, Laine; Gallup, Dianne; Roe, Matthew; Granger, Christopher B.; Armstrong, Paul W.; Simes, R. John; White, Harvey D.; Van de Werf, Frans; Topol, Eric J.; Hochman, Judith S.; Newby, L. Kristin; Harrington, Robert A.; Califf, Robert M.; Becker, Richard C.; Douglas, Pamela S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study which investigated the association between sex and 30-day mortality in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The study included patients who participated in 11 independent and randomized ACS clinical trials between 1993 and 2006. It found that 30-day mortality was 9.6 percent in women and 5.3 percent in men. It also discovered that the relationship between sex and 30-day mortality was similar across angiographic disease severity levels. Study authors concluded that the sex-based differences in 30-day mortality can be explained by the clinical differences at presentation and severity of angiographically-documented condition.
- Subjects
MORTALITY -- Sex differences; CORONARY disease; SEX factors in disease; DEATH rate; HEALTH status indicators; HUMAN sexuality
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, Vol 302, Issue 8, p874
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2009.1227