Abstract Myocardial Infarction

Background: In the evolution of myocardial infarction the gender could be a prognostic factor. Women may have bigger mortality and complication rates.

Aim: To study if there are differences in the evolution of myocardial infarction between men and women.

Methods: We have a databases and information of risk factors, clinical evolution, treatment and complications of 3500 patients with myocardial infarction in 45 Chilean hospitals. These databases are part of the GEMI (Infarction Multicenter Studies Group).

Results: A 26 % of analyzed patients were female. Mortality rates between males and females were 11.8 and 20.2% respectively. Women present more risk factors like smoking, diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Women were subjected to less invasive procedures than men. 

Discussion: Female sex is an independent risk factor for acute myocardial infarction mortality. Diabetes is more frequently in women and the older age of female patients might be one of the causes associated with a more negative prognostic.   

Conclusions: Future studies should clarify which risk factors in female patients are more important like smoking, dyslipidemia or hypertension.

Outline of a Myocardial Infarction !

Background: In the evolution of myocardial infarction the gender could be a pronostic factor.
Aim: Are there differences in the evolution of myocardial infarction between men and women?
Materials and methods: databases and information of clinical evolution and treatment of  patients with myocardial infarction in differents hospitals of Chile.
Results: mortality rates in women were higher than man, and the women used to have more risk factors asociated.
Conclusion: Female sex is an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction mortality.

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This is a big question! First of all I'm Rodrigo Maldonado, I live in Santiago de Chile, I'm 19, I'm studying in second year of Medicine at the Universidad de Chile.

This blog has been created because in my English class, we have to make it like a homework, but I don't see this "network creation" only like a homework. (The computer time is finishing here in the library, so I'm going to publish you dear post). Let's continue, long time ago I wanted to create a blog to write my ideas and expose my opinions of different things that are happening in this crazy world.

So don't surprise if you read some "English homework" between the different posts.

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