Tuesday, 10 November 2009

SEX MATTERS

Arch Intern Med 26 Oct 2009 Vol 169

1767 In the 1990s, the sex difference in mortality following myocardial infarction was a common topic of debate. Women were much less likely than men to get heart attacks, but nearly twice as likely to die from them in 1994. This reassuring study from the USA shows that in-hospital death rates from MI have fallen markedly in all patients but especially in women, so that the sex difference in mortality is now a third of what it was.
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/169/19/1767

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