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Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1162-1163.

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The descriptive epidemiological features of myocardial infarction (MI) are different in women than in men. Women who have an MI are older at the time of the MI than men, on average, by at least 5 years. Women commonly have different symptoms of coronary disease than men, and tests to detect ischemia operate differently in women than in men. Outcomes after MI in women are generally reported to be worse than those in men, with higher case fatality rates in the hospital and at 30 days and 1 year after an MI.^1-4 Some,^2-3 but not others,^{1, 4} attributed poorer outcomes in women to older age alone. In addition, some studies^3-8 have also suggested that women receive less intense approaches to treatment than do men once they are recognized as having an MI, and it is speculated that treatment differences between men and women contribute to poorer outcomes in women. In sum, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Philip Greenland, MD; Martha Gulati, MS, MD

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