Sex-specific differences in the clinical profile among psychiatric patients with pulmonary Embolism: a hospital-based retrospective study

• Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 304 - 11
• Main Authors: Kong, Lanlan, Lu, Yueying, Han, Dongsheng, Liu, Ting, Bai, Yuanhan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 27.06.2024; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Antidepressants; Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use; Antipsychotics; Care and treatment; China - epidemiology; D-dimer levels; Demographic aspects; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diagnosis; Embolism; Emotional disorders; Estrogens; Female; Females; Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products - analysis; Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products - metabolism; Health aspects; Humans; Hyperprolactinemia; Hyperprolactinemia - blood; Hyperprolactinemia - epidemiology; Hypnotics; Infections; Laboratories; Male; Males; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - blood; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Mental health; Middle age; Middle Aged; Mood disorders; Mortality; Normal distribution; Patients; Physical restraints; Prevalence; Psychiatric patients; Psychosis; Psychotropic drugs; Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary Embolism - blood; Pulmonary Embolism - epidemiology; Pulmonary embolisms; Regression analysis; Respiratory tract infection; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Schizophrenia; Sedatives; Sex; Sex differences (Psychology); Sex Factors; Sex-specific differences; Thromboembolism; Thrombosis; Velocity; Venous thromboembolism; China; Pulmonary embolism; Psychiatric patients; Sex-specific differences; D-dimer levels; Venous thromboembolism

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a severe and life-threatening complication of venous thromboembolism. However, there is a lack of systematic studies on differences between female and male PE patients. This paper aimed to compare the sex-specific differences in clinical characteristics and laboratory indi...