Gender Differences in Presentation, Coronary Intervention, and Outcomes of 28,985 Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients in Victoria, Australia

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-20

  Worrall Carter, Linda ^a,b,c   McEvedy, Samantha ^b   Wilson, Andrew ^b,c,d   Rahman, Muhammad Aziz ^b  

^a Her Heart Ltd   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; ANGIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY; VICTORIA;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT READMISSION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTORIA;

EID: 84958549093     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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