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a studies have indicated that women have les access to cardiac acts or poorer outcomes after myocardial infarction than men King and colleagues investigated sex differences in survival after catheterization, with separate analyses stratified by the agency of degree of risk, type of intervention, and time.

This consideration used data from a previous inquiry on gender differences in access to care, the Alberta Provincial cast for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease. Patients were followed for long-term issues after cardiac care using 18 clinical risk variables. The indication for catheterization was recorded, as were the size of coronary artery disease and left ventricular ejection fraction, and accident of revascularization procedures. The primary issue was all-cause mortality.

Of 37401 patients, 30 percent were women As a assign places to women were significantly older and had more comorbidities than men unless fewer myocardial infarctions and previous cardiac interventions. They also had a higher left ventricular ejection fraction and lower-risk coronary artery anatomy. Women had a higher one-year mortality rate than men (56 percent versus 46 percent) The latter finding applied particularly in the early period after catheterization. Stratification analysis showed that women with high-risk coronary anatomy had a higher mortality rate than men In addition, there was a marked increase in women's mortality risk undivided day after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG; relative risk [RR] 349) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; RR 238); the risk eventually declined to a flush equal to that in men

Mortality and risk profiles in the "no revascularization" collection were similar in women and men ensues also were similar after adjustment for time between catheterization and interventional course Finally, the authors sought to determine whether the courses themselves increased mortality risk or if death was associated with high-risk coronary anatomy. The women who were more likely to be triaged to revascularization (driven by means of high-risk anatomy), had a higher mortality risk.

This studious mood found notable sex differences in consequences in the time immediately following PCI and CABG, on the other hand the underlying mechanisms are unknown. It may be that the worse results occurred because of the higher incidence of comorbidities in women undergoing catheterization.

CAROLINE WELLBERY, MD King KM et al. Sex differences in issues after cardiac catheterization. Effect modification from treatment strategy and time. JAMA March 10 2004;291:1220-5

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