Delayed Care and Mortality Among Women and Men With Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have higher mortality rates than men. We investigated whether sex-related differences in timely access to care among STEMI patients may be a factor associated with excess risk of early mortality in women.

Methods and results

We identified 6022 STEMI patients who had information on time of symptom onset to time of hospital presentation at 41 hospitals participating in the ISACS-TC (International Survey of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Transitional Countries) registry (NCT01218776) from October 2010 through April 2016. Patients were stratified into time-delay cohorts. We estimated the 30-day risk of all-cause mortality in each cohort. Despite similar delays in seeking care, the overall time from symptom ons

SUBMITTER: Bugiardini R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5586439 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature