2020
Sex Differences in 1‐Year Health Status Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients Without Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the China PEACE Prospective Study
Zheng X, Dreyer RP, Curtis JP, Liu S, Xu X, Bai X, Li X, Zhang H, Wang S, Masoudi FA, Spertus JA, Li J, Krumholz HM, Group F. Sex Differences in 1‐Year Health Status Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients Without Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results From the China PEACE Prospective Study. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2020, 9: e014421. PMID: 32131687, PMCID: PMC7335522, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.119.014421.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPercutaneous coronary interventionAcute myocardial infarctionSAQ Summary ScoreCoronary interventionHealth status outcomesMyocardial infarctionHealth statusSummary scoresSAQ qualityAngina frequencyStatus outcomesPercutaneous coronary intervention studiesSAQ angina frequency scoreAngina frequency scoreCoronary Intervention StudyMarginal clinical significanceSAQ angina frequencyCardiac risk factorsChinese tertiary hospitalBackground Sex differencesSex differencesMultivariable adjustmentDiabetes mellitusTertiary hospitalLife scores
2016
Sex Differences in Financial Barriers and the Relationship to Recovery After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Beckman AL, Bucholz EM, Zhang W, Xu X, Dreyer RP, Strait KM, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Spatz ES. Sex Differences in Financial Barriers and the Relationship to Recovery After Acute Myocardial Infarction. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2016, 5: e003923. PMID: 27742618, PMCID: PMC5121496, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003923.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAftercareDepressionDrug CostsFemaleHealth Services AccessibilityHumansIncomeLinear ModelsMaleMedication AdherenceMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisMyocardial InfarctionPatient Health QuestionnaireProspective StudiesRecovery of FunctionSex FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsSpainUnited StatesConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionMyocardial infarctionFinancial barriersHealth status 12 monthsYoung adultsPost-AMI outcomesYear post-AMIYoung AMI patientsMultivariable linear regression modelsGreater depressive symptomatologyMental functional statusSex differencesClinical characteristicsYounger patientsAMI patientsPost-AMIFunctional statusWorse outcomesBaseline healthPsychosocial statusOutcomes 1Depressive symptomatologyPatientsMore womenHealth care
2015
Gender Differences in the Trajectory of Recovery in Health Status Among Young Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Dreyer RP, Wang Y, Strait KM, Lorenze NP, D'Onofrio G, Bueno H, Lichtman JH, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Gender Differences in the Trajectory of Recovery in Health Status Among Young Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circulation 2015, 131: 1971-1980. PMID: 25862743, PMCID: PMC4657729, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.014503.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionHealth status scoresHealth statusMyocardial infarctionStatus scoreMedical record abstractionMental summary scoresShort Form-12Disease-specific measuresHealth status measuresWomen's health statusYears of ageLower health status scoresLinear mixed-effects analysisPatients 18Younger patientsRecord abstractionForm-12Excess riskMixed-effects analysisPatient interviewsSpanish hospitalsBaseline hospitalizationSummary scoresGender differencesSex Differences in Reperfusion in Young Patients With ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction
D'Onofrio G, Safdar B, Lichtman JH, Strait KM, Dreyer RP, Geda M, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Sex Differences in Reperfusion in Young Patients With ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Circulation 2015, 131: 1324-1332. PMID: 25792558, PMCID: PMC4652789, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.012293.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsST-segment elevation myocardial infarctionMyocardial infarctionReperfusion therapyAcute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctionProspective observational cohort studyYoung AMI Patients (VIRGO) studyTime guidelinesYoung womenObservational cohort studyProportion of patientsElevation myocardial infarctionPercutaneous coronary interventionYears of ageSex differencesPatients 18Reperfusion strategyCohort studyCoronary interventionFibrinolytic therapyNeedle timeYounger patientsReperfusion delayRatio of womenReperfusion guidelinesSex disparities