Heart Attack

Further Evidence of Gender-Based Differences Reported

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 11th, 1999

Another study can be added to the growing arsenal of literature indicating treatment and outcome differences between women and men suffering myocardial infarction (MI), regardless of presentation symptoms.

In a letter to the editor in a recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, Mark Bing, MD, MPH, and associates discussed an investigation conducted by the Texas Medical Foundation in conjunction with the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project regarding gender-based differences in the treatment and outcome variances between male and female victims of myocardial infarction (Editor's Correspondence, Arch Intern Med, December 7/21, 1998;158:2513-2514). The Texas Medical...

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