Age And Sex Do Not Bias The Use Of Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme Inhibitors In Acute Myocardial Infarction And Congestive Heart Failure

Human cardiac-specific cDNA array for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: sex-related differences

“…Despite these studies on human tissues and animal models thought to mimic this disease, a clear sex-specific profile for IDCM has yet to be determined. Human cardiac tissue studies have been particularly fraught with discrepancies between research groups, with noted differences from animal models (5,7,8,10,22,24,26,34,35,39,47,49,56,58,62,70,71). Factors contributing to these discrepancies may include the lack of quality samples from which good-quality RNA can be obtained as well as the lack of access to medical histories.…”

Lights and shadows in the current management of acute myocardial infarction in the elderly

“…In this study, post-AMI treatment with ACE inhibitors, statins, and betablockers was suboptim despite the evidence of mortality reduction with their use. This underused therapy has been reported previously [6][7][8]. Thus, besides the limited PCI facilities, ''ageisme'' and a suboptim use of the efficient management in the elderly with AMI may result in a lessefficient therapy and an increased mortality and morbidity.…”

“…Although therapy appears to be standard [6][7][8][9] only two patients were treated with thrombolytic therapy (TT), and none received coronary reperfusion therapy by percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PCI) perhaps due to the fact that the hospital has no PCI facilities. This circumstance has been previously related to a significantly lesser probability of receiving PCI [10,11].…”