Sex and Racial Differences in the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction, 1994 through 2002
This study compared treatments and outcomes after myocardial infarction according to sex and race from 1994 through 2002. As compared with white men, black men and both white and black women had lower rates of reperfusion therapy and coronary angiography, and black women had higher mortality. Sex an...
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Published in | The New England journal of medicine Vol. 353; no. 7; pp. 671 - 682 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Boston, MA
Massachusetts Medical Society
18.08.2005
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Summary: | This study compared treatments and outcomes after myocardial infarction according to sex and race from 1994 through 2002. As compared with white men, black men and both white and black women had lower rates of reperfusion therapy and coronary angiography, and black women had higher mortality. Sex and racial differences did not change substantially between 1994 and 2002.
As compared with white men, black men and both white and black women had lower rates of reperfusion therapy and coronary angiography, and black women had higher mortality.
In recent years, attention has been focused on variations in the treatment of coronary heart disease that are related to the sex and race of the patient. Landmark studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s reported differences in treatment according to sex and race.
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In the past decade, other investigations have described a generally consistent pattern of less intensive treatment of acute myocardial infarction in women, as compared with men,
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and in blacks, as compared with whites,
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across a variety of settings. Efforts to remedy racial and sex differences in health care use have . . . |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJMsa032214 |