To compare 1-year outcomes after primary PCI in women and men with STEMI, matched for age and diabetes.
Consecutive women with STEMI of < 24 hours’ duration referred (August 2007 to January 2011) for primary PCI were compared with men matched for age and diabetes. Rates of all-cause mortality, target vessel revascularization (TVR) and major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) (death/myocardial infarction/stroke) were assessed at 1 year.
Among 775 consecutive patients, 182 (23.5%) women were compared with 182 matched men. Mean age was 69 ± 15 years, 18% had diabetes. Patient characteristics were similar, except for lower creatinine clearance (73 ± 41 vs 82 ± 38 渭mol/L; P = 0.041), more cardiogenic shock (14.8% vs 6.6%; P = 0.017) and less radial PCI (81.3% vs 90.1%; P = 0.024) in women. Rates of 1-year death (22.7% vs 18.1%), TVR (8.3% vs 6.0%) and MACCE (24.3% vs 20.9%) were not statistically different in women (P > 0.05 for all). After exclusion of patients with shock (10.7%) and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (6.6%), death rates were even more similar (11.3% vs 11.8%; P = 0.10). Female sex was not independently associated with death (odds ratio 1.01, 95% confidence interval 0.55–1.87; P = 0.97).
In our consecutive unselected patient population, women had similar 1-year outcomes to men matched for age and diabetes, after contemporary primary PCI for STEMI, despite having a higher risk profile at baseline.