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Gender and survival: a population-based study of 201,114 men and women following a first acute myocardial infarction

Kate MacIntyre, MB, ChB^*, Simon Stewart, PhD, NFESC^*, Simon Capewell, MD, FRCPE^*, James W. T. Chalmers, MPHM, Jill P. Pell, MB, MD, ChB, James Boyd, BSc, Alan Finlayson, BSc, Adam Redpath, BSc, Harper Gilmour, MSc^* and John J. V. McMurray, MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC

^* Department of Public Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Information and Statistics Division, National Health Service, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Greater Glasgow Health Board, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Department of Cardiology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

View larger version (31K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 (A) Age and gender-specific 30-day case-fatality rates in patients admitted to hospital. (B) Immediate case fatality in all individuals with a first acute myocardial infarction. (C) Total 30-day case fatality including those individuals who did not survive to reach hospital.

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 (A) Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the cumulative probability of survival in all men and women aged <55 years with a first AMI. (B) Kaplan-Meier survival curve showing the cumulative probability of survival in all men and women aged 55 to 64 years with a first AMI.