Sex Differences in Mortality Following Acute Coronary Syndromes.

The article focuses on a study which investigated the association between sex and 30-day mortality in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). The study included patients who participated in 11 independent and randomized ACS clinical trials between 1993 and 2006. It found that 30-day mortality was 9.6 percent in women and 5.3 percent in men. It also discovered that the relationship between sex and 30-day mortality was similar across angiographic disease severity levels. Study authors concluded that the sex-based differences in 30-day mortality can be explained by the clinical differences at presentation and severity of angiographically-documented condition.