Age-specific gender differences in early mortality following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether younger, but not older, women in China have higher in-hospital mortality following ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) compared with men, and whether this relationship varied over the last decade or across rural/urban areas.

Methods

We analysed a nationally representative sample of 11 986 patients with STEMI from 162 Chinese hospitals in 2001, 2006 and 2011, in the China PEACE-Retrospective AMI Study and compared in-hospital mortality between women and men with gender-age interactions in multivariable models.

Results

The overall in-hospital mortality rate was higher in women compared with men (17.2% vs 9.1%, p<0.0001; unadjusted OR 2.07, 95% CI 1.85 to 2.33). The unadjusted OR for mortality in women, compared with men, was 2.

SUBMITTER: Zheng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453015 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature