Increased cardiac mortality in women compared with men in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 911-918

  Kanamasa, Ken ^a   Ishikawa, Kinji ^a   Hayashi, Takahiro ^a   Hoshida, Shiro ^b   Yamada, Yoshio ^b   Kawarabayashi, Takahiko ^c   Naka, Masashi ^d   Yokoi, Yoshiaki ^e   Matsuda, Mitsuo ^f   Ogawa, Iwao ^g  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Baba Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^e Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

^f Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

^g Shiroyama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Gender; Unstable angina pectoris

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN DEATH; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8844278359     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.911     Document Type: Article

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