Resumen

POLL PINEDA, Jorge Armando; RUEDA MACIAS, Nuris María; POLL RUEDA, Armando  y  LINARES DESPAIGNE, Manuel de Jesús. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of patients with acute coronary syndrome according to sex. MEDISAN [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.10, pp. 3003-3010. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective investigation of 486 adults discharged alive after presenting some clinical form of the acute coronary syndrome belonging to 4 health areas of Santiago de Cuba was carried out, from 2004 to 2007, aimed at identifying some clinical epidemiological characteristics of this disorder according to sex. In this case material men aged 45-64 exposed to nicotine addiction were the most affected by the non complicated coronary syndrome with elevation of the ST segment, which demonstrated that this health problem was more frequent in male than in the female sex

Palabras clave : gender; acute coronary syndrome; acute coronary syndrome with elevation of the ST segment; acute coronary syndrome without elevation of the ST segment; acute myocardial infarction; acute unstable angina.

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