Gender outcomes in acute myocardial infarction: Are women from Venus and men from Mars?

EuroIntervention

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1029-1031

  Sweeny, Joseph M ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DRUG RESPONSE; EDITORIAL; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART INFARCTION; MALE; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051633881     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV6I9A179     Document Type: Editorial

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