Pharmacological treatment after acute coronary syndrome: Baseline clinical characteristics and gender differences in a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe baseline socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and drugs prescribed for secondary prevention after a first episode of ACS and to assess differences between men and women.

Setting

PHC in Catalonia.

Data source

SIDIAP (Information System for Research in Primary Care).

Participants

Patients who suffered an ACS during 2009-2016 and followed-up in PHC centres of the Catalan Health Institute in Catalonia.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main measures

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics at baseline: sex, age, socioeconomic index, toxic habits, comorbidities, study drugs (prescribed for cardiovascular secondary prevention: antiplatelets, betablockers, statins, drugs acting on the renin-angiotensin system) and comedi

SUBMITTER: Sotorra-Figuerola G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8566964 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature