Why the study?
Does female gender independently increase the risk of in-hospital mortality in patients with STEMI?
Population
4,037 patients admitted with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction within 72 hours of symptom onset…
Comparison
Female gender vs Male gender
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
In-hospital
Authors
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Higher unadjusted STEMI mortality in women reflects comorbidities, not sex itself; leaves open targeted risk-factor studies before practice change.
Does female gender independently increase the risk of in-hospital mortality in patients with STEMI?
Although women with STEMI have higher unadjusted in-hospital mortality than men, female gender is not an independent risk factor when adjusting for other clinical variables.
Park et al. (2010) studied this question.
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