Why the study?
Are there sex differences in hospital mortality after acute myocardial infarction?
Are there sex differences in hospital mortality after acute myocardial infarction?
The mortality gap between younger women and men after MI is narrowing, largely due to temporal changes in risk profiles.
Risk profile shifts may narrow younger women's post-MI mortality gap; leaves open whether targeted prevention accelerates gains.
In recent years, women, particularly younger ones, experienced larger improvements in hospital mortality after MI than men. The narrowing of the mortality gap between younger women and men is largely attributable to temporal changes in risk profiles.
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Vaccarino et al. (2009) studied this question.