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
2020
Sex Differences in Symptom Phenotypes Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Brush JE, Krumholz HM, Greene EJ, Dreyer RP. Sex Differences in Symptom Phenotypes Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality And Outcomes 2020, 13: e005948. PMID: 32063049, PMCID: PMC7041412, DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.119.005948.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdolescentAdultBiological Variation, IndividualFemaleHealth Status DisparitiesHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedMyocardial InfarctionPatient AdmissionPhenotypePredictive Value of TestsProspective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsSex FactorsSpainSymptom AssessmentUnited StatesYoung AdultConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionMyocardial infarctionMedical recordsYoung womenDiagnosis of AMIObservational cohort studyMedical record abstractionSymptom phenotypeDiagnostic processAnalysis of symptomsVIRGO StudyCohort studyRecord abstractionIndividual patientsClinician's abilityDiagnosis rateStandardized interviewPhenotype subgroupsSymptomsSimilar findingsYoung adultsWomenMenInfarctionPatients
2019
Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries as compared with myocardial infarction and obstructive coronary disease: outcomes in a Medicare population
Dreyer RP, Tavella R, Curtis JP, Wang Y, Pauspathy S, Messenger J, Rumsfeld JS, Maddox TM, Krumholz HM, Spertus JA, Beltrame JF. Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries as compared with myocardial infarction and obstructive coronary disease: outcomes in a Medicare population. European Heart Journal 2019, 41: 870-878. PMID: 31222249, PMCID: PMC7778433, DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz403.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMajor adverse cardiac eventsAcute myocardial infarctionHeart failureMyocardial infarctionCoronary angiographyComponents of MACENational Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI RegistryNon-obstructive coronary arteriesObstructive coronary artery diseaseAdverse cardiac eventsMajor adverse eventsObservational cohort studyObstructive coronary diseasePrognosis of patientsCoronary artery diseaseMACE componentsMINOCA patientsAdjusted riskCause mortalityPrimary endpointSecondary endpointsAdverse eventsCardiac eventsCathPCI RegistryCohort study
2015
Sex 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