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Does the long-term prognosis (complications and mortality) after acute myocardial infarction differ between women and age-matched men?
Does the long-term prognosis (complications and mortality) after acute myocardial infarction differ between women and age-matched men?
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Long-term prognosis following acute myocardial infarction in women is similar to that of age-matched men.
The prognostic implications of a past history of ischaemic heart disease, site of infarction, ectopic ventricular dysrhythmias (ventricular premature beats (VPB) more than one in 10 sinus beats, and/or ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF), atrioventricular blocks (AVB), bundle branch blocks (BBB)) and the occurrence of electrical and/or mechanical complications during stay in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) were analysed in 154 women with definte (WHO Class 1) acute myocardial infarction, admitted sequentially to the CCU over a four-year period. The prognosis in these women was then compared with the prognosis in a group which represented the general male population in the CCU and an age-matched group of men. The results showed that the long-term prognosis in women with acute myocardial infarction is remarkably similar to age-matched groups of men.
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Peter et al. (1978) studied this question.
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