Sex Difference in the Case Fatality of Older Myocardial Infarction Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The female sex is associated with poorer outcomes after myocardial infarction (MI), although current evidence in older patients is limited and mixed. We sought to evaluate sex-based differences in outcome after MI in older patients.

Method

Consecutive older (≥70 years) all-comer patients with out-of-hospital MI admitted to 20 hospitals in Finland between 2005 and 2014 were studied using national registries (n = 40 654, mean age 80 years, 50% women). The outcome of interest was death within 1 year after MI. Differences between sexes (age, baseline features, medication, comorbidities, revascularization, and treating hospital) were balanced by inverse probability weighting.

Results

Adjusted all-cause case fatality was lower in women than in men at 30 days (16.

SUBMITTER: Kyto V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8893190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature