ACS and STEMI treatment: Gender-related issues

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages P27-P35

  Chieffo, Alaide ^a   Buchanan, Gill Louise ^a   Mauri, Fina ^b   Mehilli, Julinda ^c   Vaquerizo, Beatriz ^d   Moynagh, Anouska ^e   Mehran, Roxana ^f   Morice, Marie Claude ^e  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT HOSPITALIER JACQUES CARTIER   (France)

^f MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIVALIRUDIN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REGISTER; REVASCULARIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84905300592     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8SPA6     Document Type: Article

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