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Study with Special Reference to the Disproportionate Rise in Incidence of the Disease Among Older Women

KYU TAIK LEE, M.D.; WILBUR A. THOMAS, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1956;98(1):80-83.

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In a recent epdemiological study of autopsied patients with acute myocardial infarction, at Washington University, it was discovered that a shift has occurred in recent years in the relative incidence of the disease in the two sexes.¹ In the period 1910-1939 the incidence of acute myocardial infarction was twice as great in men as it was in women. In the period 1940-1954 the incidence was not significantly greater in men than in women. The results in a portion of the latter period have been confirmed by Acher, Burchell, and Edwards,* who found a similar ratio (1:1) between the sexes among the patients with acute myocardial infarction autopsied at Mayo Clinic during the period 1946-1950. Such a shift is of profound significance and warrants a careful search for factors that may be responsible. The purpose of this report is to present the results of a study of various factors associated . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
St. Louis

From the Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 23, 1955.

This study was supported in part by Grant H-1820 from the National Heart Institute, Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.

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