Cited by 56Acute Myocardial Infarction ResearchCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmiasSex and Gender in Healthcare

Gender-Related Differences in Electrocardiographic Parameters and Their Association With Cardiac Events in Patients After Myocardial Infarction

Open access
Mieszczanska, Hanna, Pietrasik, Grzegorz, Piotrowicz, Katarzyna, McNitt, Scott, Moss, Arthur J., Zareba, Wojciech·2008·The American Journal of Cardiology

Abstract

There are limited data regarding gender-related differences in electrocardiographic (ECG) presentation in patients after myocardial infarction (MI) and the prognostic value of ECG variables in women. A series of ECG parameters were analyzed in 838 patients (216 women, 622 men) using standard electrocardiography performed 5 to 7 days after first MI, and their associations with gender and risk for cardiac events, defined as cardiac death, nonfatal MI, or unstable angina, were evaluated. Heart rate was faster and QTc duration was longer, whereas QRS duration was shorter in women compared with men. Women had more lateral ST depressions and more T-wave inversions in the anterior and lateral regions. During mean 2-year follow-up, there were 138 events in men and 65 in women; women had a 38% greater risk for recurrent events (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.38, p = 0.031). In multivariate Cox regression analysis, ST-segment elevation in leads V(1) to V(4) on the fifth to seventh day after MI was associated with increased risk for recurrent events in women (adjusted HR 2.16, p = 0.003) but not in men (adjusted HR = 0.81, p = 0.32). ST depressions in leads V(5), V(6), I, or aVL (adjusted HR 1.70, p = 0.006) in men but not in women (adjusted HR 0.98, p = 0.93) were identified as a risk factor for recurrent events. In conclusion, there are gender-related differences in ECG presentation and the prognostic significance of ECG findings after MI. ST-segment elevation in anterior leads is a significant predictor of events in women, whereas ST depression in lateral leads is a significant predictor in men.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.07.077

Cites

29 of 29 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • In patients after myocardial infarction, ST-segment elevation in anterior leads is a significant predictor of events in women, whereas ST depression in lateral leads is a significant predictor in men.

    “In patients after myocardial infarction STsegment elevation in anterior leads was a significant predictor of events in women, whereas ST depression in lateral leads was a significant predictor in men.46”

    From The Year of 2008 in Electrocardiology (2010) · cites this paper as [46]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Mieszczanska, H., Pietrasik, G., Piotrowicz, K., McNitt, S., Moss, A. J., & Zareba, W.
Affiliations
University of Rochester Medicine (US)
Venue
The American Journal of Cardiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-01
Volume
101
Issue
1
Pages
20-24
ISSN
0002-9149 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2072270960
Cited by
56
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
3.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The American Journal of Cardiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL048259)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Sex and Gender in Healthcare
Keywords
myocardial infarction, sex differences, electrocardiographic parameters, ST-segment elevation, ST-segment depression, T-wave inversion, QTc interval, QRS duration, heart rate, cardiac events, prognosis, reinfarction, unstable angina, cardiovascular mortality, women
MeSH terms
Angina Pectoris, Electrocardiography, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction, Prognosis, Recurrence, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Multivariate Analysis, Risk Assessment

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review