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Article: Younger Women Do Worse Than Men After MI.
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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NEW ORLEANS -- The younger a woman is when she has an acute myocardial infarction, the greater her risk of in-hospital death, compared with a similarly aged man.
Short-term mortality after MI becomes equal for women and men only after age 75, Dr. Viola Vaccarino reported at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Prior to that age, for every 5 years' decline in age, the adjusted excess risk of death for women increases by an additional 7%, said Dr. Vaccarino of Yale University in New Haven.
This intriguing finding came from her analysis of nearly 385,000 patients aged 30-90 years with acute MI not involving hospital transfer. The ...