Gender differences in management and outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction

Gender differences of success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention and short term cardiac events in Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry

“…But there was no significant difference between men and women after covariate adjustment by multivariate logistic regression analysis. This result is consistent with previous studies [15][16][17] as well as the study of 1990s Korean AMI [14]. Interestingly initial invasive treatment was discouraged for those with heart failure, cerebrovascular disease.…”

“…Recently some studies [15][16][17] reported that there is no difference between men and women in the initial treatment for AMI. To examine sex differences in the clinical characteristics, initial treatment in Korea, we prospectively registered through Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry (KAMIR) in the field of STsegment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).…”

Impact of gender differences on long-term outcomes after successful percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction

“…This suggests that the crude differences in short-term mortality are largely explained by these clinical differences at presentation. This illustrates a connection with previous explanations such as the presence of additional comorbidities, more non-specific symptoms and less aggressive treatment in women than in men [1][2][3][4][5]. …”

“…These compelling data suggest strong rationale for focusing on the study of gender difference in the outcome of AMI. Almost all previous supporting studies on gender differences were performed by various treatment modalities [1][2][3][4][5], and our previous study also included thrombolytic therapy and bare-metal stents [2]. Drug-eluting stent implantation has shown more favorable outcomes compared with those of thrombolytic therapy or bare-metal stents.…”

“…As shown in Fig. 1, short-and long-term outcomes were not significantly different between males and females, regardless of AMI type.Several recent studies on the gender difference in mortality after AMI have consistently demonstrated that women have a higher mortality than men [1,2]. But some studies have indicated that there is no difference [3], and other studies have shown a lower rate of mortality for women compared with men [4,5].…”