After Acute MI, Young Women Have Higher Rate of Readmission compared to Young Men
According to recent study, women over the age of 55 who have survived an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may have a nearly twice the chance of being readmitted in the year after discharge compared to males their age.
The most common reasons for hospital readmission did not differ by sex in an analysis of data from the prospective Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients (VIRGO) study; however, young women consistently had higher risks of all-cause, coronary-related, and noncardiac rehospitalizations than did men.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provided funding for the research, which was then published online on May 1, 2023, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
For the first time, it has been shown that some non-cardiac variables, such as depression and poor income, are related with worse outcomes and are followed by rehospitalizations after heart attacks in women aged 55 and younger. The research suggests that, in order to assist in developing better therapeutic treatments and enhance outcomes after discharge for a heart attack, more attention has to be paid to these noncardiac risk factors in younger women.
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