Editor's Choice-Sex differences in young patients with acute myocardial infarction: A VIRGO study analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Young women with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have a higher risk of adverse outcomes than men. However, it is unclear how young women with AMI are different from young men across a spectrum of characteristics. We sought to compare young women and men at the time of AMI on six domains of demographic and clinical factors in order to determine whether they have distinct profiles.

Methods and results

Using data from Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients (VIRGO), a prospective cohort study of women and men aged ⩽55 years hospitalized for AMI ( n = 3501) in the United States and Spain, we evaluated sex differences in demographics, healthcare access, cardiovascular risk and psychosocial factors, symptoms and pre-hospital delay, clinical p

SUBMITTER: Bucholz EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459677 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature