Differences between men and women in terms of clinical features of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-226

  Kosuge, Masami ^a   Kimura, Kazuo ^a   Ishikawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Ebina, Toshiaki ^a   Hibi, Kiyoshi ^a   Tsukahara, Kengo ^a   Kanna, Masahiko ^a   Iwahashi, Noriaki ^a   Okuda, Jyun ^a   Nozawa, Naoki ^a   Ozaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Yano, Hideto ^a   Nakati, Tatsuya ^a   Kusama, Ikuyoshi ^a   Umemura, Satoshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender; Myocardial infarction; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARM; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAND; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER PAIN; SORE THROAT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33644608600     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.222     Document Type: Article

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