Sex Differences in Short-term and Long-term All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated by Primary Percutaneous Intervention

Pancholy, Samir; Palamaner Subash Shantha, Ghanshyam; Patel, Toralben; J. Cheskin, Lawrence

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.4762

Public

Sex Differences in Short-term and Long-term All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated by Primary Percutaneous Intervention

Published in JAMA Internal Medicine • Sep 29, 2014

Authors:

Samir Pancholy

Ghanshyam Palamaner Subash Shantha

Toralben Patel

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Although outcomes in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have improved in the past 2 decades, a sex disparity exists in survival, with women having higher mortality than men. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a meta-analysis of observational studies that examined differe...

Subject

Medicine

Percutaneous coronary intervention

Myocardial infarction

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!