Higher Mortality for Women With MI and No Chest Pain
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
Action Points
Women more often have no chest pain with a myocardial infarction and have a greater risk of dying in hospital than men do.
Note that the disparities between men and women existed in all age groups, but the magnitude of the differences diminished with increasing age, with the youngest women with MI most likely to have no chest pain and also the highest mortality.
Women more often have no chest pain with a myocardial infarction (MI) and have a greater risk of dying in hospital than men do, analysis of a large clinical registry showed.
