Women with acute coronary syndrome are less invasively examined and subsequently less treated than men

Abstract

Women with ACS are approached in a much less aggressively invasive way and receive less interventional treatment than men even after adjusting for differences in comorbidity and number of significant stenoses.

Keywords

MedicineComorbidityHazard ratioAcute coronary syndromeInternal medicineRevascularizationProportional hazards modelCardiologyIncidence (geometry)PopulationDanishMyocardial infarctionConfidence interval

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Year: 2009
Type: article
Volume: 31
Issue: 6
Pages: 684-690
Citations: 150
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                                    Anders Hvelplund, 
                                
                                    S. Galatius, 
                                
                                    Mette Madsen
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2009). 
                            Women with acute coronary syndrome are less invasively examined and subsequently less treated than men. 
                            European Heart Journal
                            , 31
                            (6)
                            , 684-690.
                            https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehp493
                        

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DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp493