Do younger women fare worse? Sex differences in acute myocardial infarction hospitalization and early mortality rates over ten years

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-17

  Izadnegahdar, Mona ^a,b   Singer, Joel ^a   Lee, May K ^b   Gao, Min ^a,b   Thompson, Christopher R ^a   Kopec, Jacek ^a   Humphries, Karin H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84891707271     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2013.4507     Document Type: Article

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