Variation in cardiovascular disease care: an Australian cohort study on sex differences in receipt of coronary procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to quantify sex differences in diagnostic and revascularisation coronary procedures within 1 year of hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or angina.

Design

This is a prospective cohort study. Baseline questionnaire (January 2006-April 2009) data from the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study were linked to hospitalisation and mortality data (to 30 June 2016) in a time-to-event analysis, treating death as a censoring event.

Setting

This was conducted in New South Wales, Australia.

Participants

The study included participants aged ≥45 years with no history of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) who were admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of AMI (n=4580) or a primary diagnosis of angina or chronic IHD with secon

SUBMITTER: Fogg AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661610 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature