2023
Association of Sociodemographic Characteristics With 1-Year Hospital Readmission Among Adults Aged 18 to 55 Years With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Okafor C, Zhu C, Raparelli V, Murphy T, Arakaki A, D’Onofrio G, Tsang S, Smith M, Lichtman J, Spertus J, Pilote L, Dreyer R. Association of Sociodemographic Characteristics With 1-Year Hospital Readmission Among Adults Aged 18 to 55 Years With Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Network Open 2023, 6: e2255843. PMID: 36787140, PMCID: PMC9929697, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.55843.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionYoung adultsHospital readmissionBlack raceMyocardial infarctionRacial differencesCardiac factorsSociodemographic characteristicsBlack individualsOdds of readmissionObservational cohort studyMedical record abstractionRisk of readmissionWhite individualsAdults Aged 18Year of dischargePostdischarge readmissionVIRGO StudyCause readmissionCohort studyPrimary outcomeRecord abstractionMulticenter studyAged 18Male ratio
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