Key result
Young women with AMI face longer treatment delays and higher mortality than similarly aged men.
Why the study?
Does female sex impact clinical outcomes and management patterns in young patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Does female sex impact clinical outcomes and management patterns in young patients with acute myocardial infarction?
This review underscores critical sex-based disparities in acute myocardial infarction among young adults, highlighting higher mortality, frequent care delays, and unique disease phenotypes in women.
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Alerts clinicians to sex disparities in young AMI; leaves open optimal sex-specific strategies pending prospective trials.
In recent years, there has been growing public awareness and increasing attention to young women with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), who represent an extreme phenotype. Young women presenting with AMI may develop coronary disease by different mechanisms and often have worse recoveries, with higher risk for morbidity and mortality compared with similarly aged men. The purpose of this cardiovascular perspective piece is to review recent studies of AMI in young women. More specifically, we emphasize differences in the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of AMI in young women (when compared with men) across the continuum of care, including their pre-AMI, in-hospital, and post-AMI periods, and highlight gaps in knowledge and outcomes that can inform the next generation of research.
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Dreyer et al. (2017) conducted a review in Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). Female sex vs. Similarly aged men was evaluated. Young women presenting with acute myocardial infarction experience different disease mechanisms, longer treatment delays, and higher morbidity and mortality compared with similarly aged men.
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