Comparison of modes of death and cardiac necropsy findings in fatal acute myocardial infarction in men and women >75 years of age.
In comparing the cause of death and other cardiac morphologic findings among 60 women and 40 men aged >75 years who died of acute myocardial infarction, we found that women died more often from mechanical complications than left ventricular pump failure. Women had cardiomegaly, nonanterior location of acute myocardial infarction, healed myocardial infarcts, and dilated left ventricular cavity less often than men.
Shirani
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Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. jshirani@montefiore.org
Alaeddini
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Roberts
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D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001344:Autopsy; D002423:Cause of Death; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology*; D011336:Probability; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution