Impact of Sex on Long-term Mortality From Acute Myocardial Infarction vs Unstable Angina

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2476-2484

  Chang, Wei Ching ^a   Kaul, Padma ^a   Westerhout, Cynthia M ^a   Graham, Michelle M ^a   Fu, Yuling ^a   Chowdhury, Tapan ^b   Armstrong, Paul W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^c HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242424188     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.20.2476     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Thomas JL, Braus P. Coronary artery disease in women: a historical perspective. Arch Intern Med. 1998;158:333-337.
2. Kostis JB, Wilson AC, O'Dowd K, et al, for the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) Study Group. Sex differences in the management and long-term outcome of acute myocardial infarction: a statewide study. Circulation. 1994;90:1715-1730.
3. Clarke KW, Gray D, Keeting NA, Hampton JR. Do women with acute myocardial infarction receive the same treatment as men? BMJ. 1994;309:563-566.
4. Weaver WD, White HD, Wilcox RG, et al. Comparisons of characteristics and outcomes among women and men with acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic therapy. JAMA. 1996;275:777-782.
5. Gan SC, Beaver SK, HouckPM, MacLehose RF, Lawson H, Chan L. Treatment of acute myocardial infarction and 30-day mortality among women and men. N Engl J Med. 2000;343:8-15.
6. Stone PH, Thompson B, Anderson HV, et al. Influence of race, sex, and age on management of unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction: the TIMI III registry. JAMA. 1996;275:1104-1112.
7. Bell MR, Grill DE, Garratt KN, Berger PB, Gersh BJ, Holmes DR. Long-term outcome of women compared with men after successful coronary angioplasty. Circulation. 1995;91:2876-2881.
8. Hochman JS, Tamis JE, Thompson TD, et al, for the Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries in Acute Coronary Syndromes IIb Investigators. Sex, clinical presentation, and outcome in patients with acute coronary syndromes. N Engl J Med. 1999;341:226-232.
9. Vaccarino V, Parsons L, Every NR, Barron HV, Krumholz HM, for the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 2 Participants. Sex-based differences in early mortality after myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 1999;341:217-225.
10. Vaccarino V, Krumholz HM, Yarzebski J, Gore JM, Goldbert RJ. Sex differences in 2-year mortality after hospital discharge for myocardial infarction. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134:173-181.
11. Becker RC, Terrin M, Ross R, et al, and the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Investigators. Comparison of clinical outcomes for women and men after acute myocardial infarction. Ann Intern Med. 1994;120:638-645.
12. Lincoff AM, Califf RM, Ellis SG, et al, for the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction Study Group. Thrombolytic therapy for women with myocardial infarction: is there a gender gap? J Am Coll Cardiol. 1993;22:1780-1787.
13. Malacrida R, Genoni M, Maggioni AP, et al. A comparison of the early outcome of acute myocardial infarction in women and men. N Engl J Med. 1998;338:8-14.
14. Marrugat J, Gil M, Masia R, Sala J, Elosua R, Anto JM, and the REGICOR Investigators. Role of age and sex in short-term and long term mortality after a first Q wave myocardial infarction. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2001;55:487-493.
15. Moen EK, Asher CR, Miller DP, et al. Long-term follow-up of gender-specific outcomes after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction from the GUSTO-I trial: Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries. J Womens Health. 1997;6:285-293.
16. White HD, Barbash GI, Modan M, et al. After correcting for worse baseline characteristics, women treated with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction have the same mortality and morbidity as men except for a higher incidence of hemorrhagic stroke. Circulation. 1993;88:2097-2103.
17. Woodfield SL, Lundergan CF, Reiner JS, et al. Gender and acute myocardial infarction: is there a different response to thrombolysis? J Am Coll Cardiol. 1997;29:35-42.
18. Vaccarino V, Berkman LF, Krumholz HM. Long-term outcome of myocardial infarction in women and men: a population perspective. Am J Epidemiol. 2000;152:965-973.
19. Boersma E, Pieper KS, Steyerberg EW, et al, for the Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa in Unstable Angina: Receptor Suppression Using Integrilin (Eptifibatide) Therapy (PURSUIT) Investigators. Predictors of outcome in patients with acute coronary syndromes without persistent ST-segment elevation: results from an international trial of 9461 patients. Circulation. 2000;101:2557-2567.
20. Chua TP, Saia F, Bhardwaj V, et al. Are there gender differences in patients presenting with unstable angina? Int J Cardiol. 2000;72:281-286.
21. Statistics Canada Web site. Available at: http://www.statcan.ca. Accessed October 31, 2001.
22. World Health Report 2000. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2000.
23. Lagerqvist B, Safstrom K, Stahle E, Wallentin L, Swahn E, and the Fragmin and Fast Revascularization During Instability in Coronary Artery Disease (FRISC) II Study Group Investigators. Is early invasive treatment of unstable coronary artery disease equally effective for both women and men? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001;38:41-48.
24. Heim LJ, Brunsell SC. Heart disease in women. Prim Care. 2000;27:741-766.
25. Sheifer SE, Canos MR, Weinfurt KP, et al. Sex differences in coronary artery size assessed by intravascular ultrasound. Am Heart J. 2000;139:649-653.
26. Alter DA, Naylor CD, Austin P, Tu LV. Effects of socioeconomic status on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality after acute myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med. 1999;341:1359-1367.
27. O'Connor GT, Morton JR, Diehl MJ, et al. Differences between men and women in hospital mortality associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Circulation. 1993;88:2104-2110.
28. Hartz RS, Charney P. Coronary artery bypass grafting: is it worth the risk? In: Charney P, ed. Coronary Artery Disease in Women: What All Physicians Need To Know. Philadelphia, Pa: American College of Physicians; 1999:438-462.
29. Kelsey SF, James M, Holubkov AL, Holubkov R, Cowley MJ, Detre KM, and Investigators from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Registry. Results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in women: 1985-1986 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Coronary Angioplasty Registry. Circulation. 1993;87:720-727.
30. Weintraub WS, Wenger NK, Jones EL, Craver JM, Guyton RA. Changing clinical characteristics of coronary surgery patients: differences between men and women. Circulation. 1993;88(5 pt 2):1179-1186.
31. Jacobs AK, Kelsey SF, Brooks MM, et al. Better outcome for women compared with men undergoing coronary revascularization: a report from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI). Circulation. 1998;98:1279-1285.
32. Mehilli J, Kastrati A, Dirschinger J, et al. Sex-based analysis of outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated predominantly with percutaneous coronary intervention. JAMA. 2002;287:210-215.
33. Prescott E, Hippe M, Schnohr P, et al. Smoking and risk of myocardial infarction in women and men: longitudinal population study. BMJ. 1998;316:1043-1047.
34. Clifton PM, Nestel PJ. Influence of gender, body mass index, and age on response of plasma lipids to dietary fat plus cholesterol. Arterioscler Thromb. 1992;12:955-962.
35. Lawlor DA, Ebrahim S, Smith GD. Sex matters: secular and geographical trends in sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality. BMJ. 2001;323:541-545.
36. Salomaa V, Miettinen H, Niemela M, et al. Relation of socioeconomic position to the case fatality, prognosis and treatment of myocardial infarction events: the FINMONICA MI Register Study. J Epidemiol Commmunity Health. 2001;55:475-482.
37. Orth-Gomer K, Horsten M, Wamala SP, et al. Social relations and extent and severity of coronary artery disease. Eur Heart J. 1998;19:1648-1656.
38. Douglas PS. Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders Co; 2002:100-101, 318-319.
39. Farb A, Burke AP, Tang AL, et al. Coronary plaque erosion without rupture into a lipid core. Circulation. 1996;93:1354-1363.
40. Kolodgie FD, Burke AP, Farb A, et al. The thin-cap fibroatheroma: a type of vulnerable plaque: the major precursor lesion to acute coronary syndromes. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2001;16:285-292.
41. Ghali WA, Faris PD, Galbraith PD, et al, for the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) Investigators. Sex differences in access to cardiac revascularization after cardiac catheterization: importance of detailed clinical data. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:723-732.
42. Chambless L, Keil U, Dobson A, et al, for the WHO Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease (MONICA) Project. Population versus clinical view of case fatality from acute coronary heart disease: results from the WHO MONICA Project 1985-1990. Circulation. 1997;96:3849-3859.
43. Tu LV, Naylor D, Austin P. Temporal changes in the outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Ontario: 1992-1996. CMAJ. 1999;161:1257-1261.