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Narrowing Gender Differences In Procedure Use For Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From The Worcester Heart Attack Study, Leslie Harrold, Julian Esteban, Darleen Lessard, Jorge Yarzebski, Jerry Gurwitz, Joel Gore, Robert Goldberg
Narrowing Gender Differences In Procedure Use For Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights From The Worcester Heart Attack Study, Leslie Harrold, Julian Esteban, Darleen Lessard, Jorge Yarzebski, Jerry Gurwitz, Joel Gore, Robert Goldberg
Jorge L. Yarzebski
OBJECTIVE: To examine age-specific gender differences and trends over time in the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of patients admitted with AMI from a community-wide perspective over a 10-year period (1990-1999). SETTING: All hospitals in the Worcester (Mass) metropolitan area (1990 census = 437000). PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS: We identified 2037 women and 2645 men who were hospitalized in the Worcester metropolitan area with confirmed AMI during six 1-year periods between 1990 and 1999. Four age groups (<55, 55 to 64, 65 to 74 and >or=75 years) of men and women were studied. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Use of echocardiography, exercise treadmill testing (ETT), …