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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2009 Aug 26;302(8):874–882. doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1227

Table 3. Risk of 30 day Mortality for Women Compared with Men, Following ACS in the Overall Cohort (n=136,247).

Event Rates Odds Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)

Women Men Unadjusted Adjusted
All ACS 3654/37904
9.6%
5166/97768
5.3%
1.91 (1.83, 2.00) 1.06 (0.99, 1.15)
STEMI 3198/25903
12.3%
4385/75577
5.8%
2.29 (2.18, 2.40)* 1.15 (1.06, 1.24)*
NSTEMI 265/4156
6.4%
9850/10297
4.3%
1.50 (1.28, 1.75)* 0.77 (0.63, 0.95)*
Unstable Angina 191/7845
2.4%
334/11894
2.8%
0.86 (0.72, 1.03)* 0.55 (0.43, 0.70)*

Abbreviations: ACS, acute coronary syndromes; STEMI, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction; NSTEMI, non-STEMI

Odds ratios of female vs. male and 95% CI obtained through logistic regression including the following covariates: Age, Killip class, interaction between age and Killip class, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, weight, height, history of CHF, history of MI, history of CABG, history of diabetes, history of PCI, history of hypertension, current smoking status, and former smoking status along with type of ACS

*

Includes ACS*sex interaction to obtain the sex effect conditional on ACS categories

Statistically significant difference in overall mortality at 30 days between women and men under the Bonferroni-adjusted significance level 0.005 (= .05/10)