Impact of gender on in-hospital mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: An evaluation of the TAMIS-II data

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 363-366

  Hirakawa, Yoshihira ^a   Masuda, Yuichiro ^a   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^a   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a   Kimata, Takaya ^a   Uemura, Kazumasa ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; In hospital death; Japan; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Sex

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STUDENT T TEST; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34247096615     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6137     Document Type: Article

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