Gender and age differences in chief complaints of acute myocardial infarction (Worcester heart attack study)

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.11.028

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volume 93, Issue 5, 1 March 2004, Pages 606-608

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Abstract

We examined gender and age differences for chief symptom complaints in a population-based sample of 881 women (43%) and 1,192 men (57%) hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Women, in particular older women, were less likely than men to have a chief complaint of chest pain associated with AMI. Overall, a large proportion of women and men whose AMI was ultimately diagnosed did not present with chest pain as their chief complaint.

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^☆: This work was funded by Ethel F. Donaghue Women's Health Investigator Program at Yale Award No. R02524, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Gender and age differences in chief complaints of acute myocardial infarction (Worcester heart attack study)☆