Women are undertreated and have worse clinical outcomes than men after acute myocardial infarction; this new research paper seeks to determine if these disparities in care persist today. The answer is: YES. In this video, Dr. Joseph S. Alpert, AJM editor-in-chief, discusses “Age-Stratified Sex Disparities in Care and Outcomes in Patients with ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction” by Liu et al in the November 2020 issue of AJM, available at AmjMed.com.
