Yim S, Ahn JH, Jeong MH, Ahn Y, Kim JH, Hong YJ, Sim DS, Kim MC, Cho KH, Lee SH, Hyun DY. Impact of sex difference on clinical outcomes in acute myocardial infarction patients with single-vessel and multi-vessel disease: based on Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry-National Institute of Health.
Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 2023;
13:660-672. [PMID:
37675088 PMCID:
PMC10478015 DOI:
10.21037/cdt-22-536]
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Abstract
Background
Several studies have compared clinical outcomes according to sex in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, studies evaluating sex differences in clinical outcomes of single-vessel disease (SVD) and multi-vessel disease (MVD) in Korean patients with AMI are lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze sex differences in the clinical characteristics of patients with AMI with SVD and MVD and to evaluate the impact of sex differences on the clinical outcomes in patients with AMI with SVD and MVD.
Methods
A total of 11,002 AMI patients from November 2011 to June 2015 in the Korea AMI Registry, National Institute of Health, were enrolled. The current study was retrospective observational study. Patients were divided into SVD (n=5,644) and MVD (n=5,358) groups, and clinical impact of sex difference were analyzed by propensity score matching analysis and Cox proportional hazard regression model.
Results
Women were older and had poor baseline clinical characteristics than men. Propensity score-matched analysis of men and women with SVD and MVD revealed that the adjusted 3-year risk of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) (15.0% vs. 9.4%; hazard ratio, 1.86; 95% confidence interval, 1.10-3.13; P=0.020) was higher in women with SVD aged <65 years. However, the incidence and risk of MACE were similar for men and women with MVD, and those with SVD aged ≥65 years.
Conclusions
In the present study of Korean patients with AMI, women were older and exhibited a higher prevalence of comorbidities than men. Women with SVD aged <65 years had a significantly higher risk of MACE.
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