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Functional disability before myocardial infarction in the elderly as a determinant of infarction severity and postinfarction mortalityV Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, USA
Arch Intern Med 157:2196-204. 1997..Our objectives were to determine whether disability in the activities of daily living measured before MI is a predictor of MI severity and mortality...
Long-term outcome of myocardial infarction in women and men: a population perspectiveV Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Am J Epidemiol 152:965-73. 2000..In conclusion, in this elderly cohort, when viewed from a population perspective, MI had a greater impact on mortality in women and significantly narrowed women's typical survival advantage over men...
Pulse pressure and risk for myocardial infarction and heart failure in the elderlyV Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8034, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 36:130-8. 2000....
Sex differences in mortality after myocardial infarction: evidence for a sex-age interactionV Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06520 8034, USA
Arch Intern Med 158:2054-62. 1998..Studies of sex differences in mortality after myocardial infarction (MI) have shown conflicting results...
Sex-based differences in early mortality after myocardial infarction. National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 2 ParticipantsV Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06520 8034, USA
N Engl J Med 341:217-25. 1999..We hypothesized that younger, but not older, women have higher mortality rates during hospitalization than their male peers...
Sex differences in the clinical care and outcomes of congestive heart failure in the elderlyV Vaccarino
Department of Epidemiology, Internal Medicine Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Am Heart J 138:835-42. 1999..There is evidence for sex differences in treatment and outcome of ischemic heart disease. However, little and conflicting data exist about sex differences in the care and outcome of elderly patients with heart failure...
Predictors of readmission among elderly survivors of admission with heart failureH M Krumholz
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Am Heart J 139:72-7. 2000..Identifying factors to predict risk of readmission in these patients could help clinicians focus resource-intensive disease management efforts on the high-risk patients...
Gender differences in symptom presentation associated with coronary heart diseaseK A Milner
The Yale University School of Nursing, The Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Connecticut, USA
Am J Cardiol 84:396-9. 1999....
Prognostic importance of emotional support for elderly patients hospitalized with heart failureH M Krumholz
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8025, USA
Circulation 97:958-64. 1998..To address this issue, we sought to determine whether emotional support is associated with fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events in elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure...
Correlates and impact on outcomes of worsening renal function in patients > or =65 years of age with heart failureH M Krumholz
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8025, USA
Am J Cardiol 85:1110-3. 2000....
Sex differences in cardiac catheterization: the role of physician genderS S Rathore
Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208025, New Haven, CT 06520-8025, USA
JAMA 286:2849-56. 2001..These results suggest that factors other than sexual bias by male physicians toward women account for sex differences in cardiac procedure use...
Symptom predictors of acute coronary syndromes in younger and older patientsK A Milner
Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut 06536-0740, USA
Nurs Res 50:233-41. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Typical symptoms are predictive of ACS in younger patients and less predictive in older patients...
Trends in the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries admitted to the hospital with unstable anginaH M Krumholz
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, CT 06520 8025, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 31:957-63. 1998....
Use and effectiveness of intravenous heparin therapy for treatment of acute myocardial infarction in the elderlyH M Krumholz
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Connecticut 06520 8025, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 31:973-9. 1998....
An evidence-based assessment of federal guidelines for overweight and obesity as they apply to elderly personsA Heiat
Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208025, New Haven, CT 06520-8025, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:1194-203. 2001..Studies do not support overweight, as opposed to obesity, as conferring an excess mortality risk. Future guidelines should consider the evidence for specific age groups when establishing standards for healthy weight...
Utilization and effectiveness of a weight-based heparin nomogram at a large academic medical centerT J Balcezak
Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Manag Care 6:329-38. 2000..To determine the utilization rate of a weight-based heparin nomogram and to assess the performance of the nomogram outside of experimental conditions...
Socioeconomic status and type 2 diabetes in African American and non-Hispanic white women and men: evidence from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyJ M Robbins
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Conn, USA
Am J Public Health 91:76-83. 2001..This study examined the associations of poverty income ratio (PIR), education, and occupational status with type 2 diabetes prevalence among African American and non-Hispanic White (White) women and men aged 40 to 74 years...
