É o sexo feminino um preditor independente de mortalidade hospitalar no infarto agudo do miocárdio? / Is female sex an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction?
Arq. bras. cardiol
; 77(1): 37-50, July 2001. tab
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To assess whether female sex is a factor independently related to in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction.METHODS:
Of 600 consecutive patients (435 males and 165 females) with acute myocardial infarction, we studied 13 demographic and clinical variables obtained at the time of hospital admission through uni- and multivariate analysis, and analyzed their relation to in-hospital death.RESULTS:
Females were older (p<0.001) and had a higher incidence of hypertension (p<0.001). Males were more frequently smokers (p<0.001). The remaining risk factors had a similar incidence among both sexes. All variables underwent uni- and multivariate analysis. Through univariate analysis, the following variables were found to be associated with in-hospital death female sex (p<0.001), age >70 years (p<0.001), the presence of previous coronary artery disease (p=0.0004), previous myocardial infarction (p<0.001), infarction in the anterior wall (p=0.007), presence of left ventricular dysfunction (p<0.001), and the absence of thrombolytic therapy (p=0.04). Through the multivariate analysis of logistic regression, the following variables were associated with in-hospital mortality female sex (p=0.001), age (p=0.008), the presence of previous myocardial infarction (p=0.02), and left ventricular dysfunction (p<0.001).CONCLUSION:
After adjusting for all risk variables, female sex proved to be a variable independently related to in-hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
LILACS
Assunto principal:
Mortalidade Hospitalar
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Infarto do Miocárdio
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
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Pt
Revista:
Arq. bras. cardiol
Assunto da revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Brasil