MI: Women

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Higher Mortality for Women With MI and No Chest Pain

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Published: February 21, 2012

Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.

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.

Almost 40% more women had no chest pain at diagnosis, and they had a 42% higher inhospital mortality, researchers reported in the Feb. 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The disparities between men and women existed in all age groups, but the magnitude of the differences diminished with increasing age. The youngest women with MI were most likely to have no chest pain and also had the highest mortality./.../