Sex Differences in Symptom Phenotypes Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is missed more frequently in young women than men, which may be related to the cognitive psychology of the diagnostic process. Physicians start the diagnostic process by intuitively recognizing familiar symptom phenotypes, but little is known about how symptoms combine in individuals as unique symptom phenotypes. We examined how symptoms of AMI combine as unique symptom phenotypes in individual patients to compare the distribution of symptom phenotypes in women versus men.

Methods and results

The VIRGO study (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients) was a multicenter, observational cohort study of 3501 young adults hospitalized with AMI. Data were collected on presenting symptoms wi

SUBMITTER: Brush JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7041412 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature