Pulmonary embolism, mortality, 'weekend effect' and gender: what do we know?

• Published in: Future cardiology Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 9 - 13
• Main Authors: Manfredini, Roberto, Fabbian, Fabio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Future Medicine Ltd 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Cardiovascular disease; Comorbidity; Embolisms; Gender; Health risk assessment; Heart attacks; Holidays & special occasions; Hospitals; Mortality; pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary embolisms; Stroke; Studies; weekend effect; Womens health; England; Italy; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Wales; mortality; gender; pulmonary embolism; weekend effect
• ISSN: 1479-6678; 1744-8298
• DOI: 10.2217/fca-2017-0077

[...]a recent study from our group on the comprehensive National Hospital Database of Italy (n=265,035), provided further confirmation in agreement with previous studies (OR: 1.15; 95%CI: 1.13-1.18) (18). [...]Nanchaletal. reported that subjects hospitalized during WE were characterized by higher severity parameters, such as need for mechanical ventilation, thrombolytic therapy use and use of vasopressors (13). [...]the widely recognized indicator of comorbidity, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), was significantly higher in subjects admitted during WE (1.16±1.90 vs 1.13±1.89, p<0.001) and it significantly contributed to clinical outcome together with gender and age. [...]the American Heart Association has recently released a specific statement which reviews the available evidence of treatment and outcomes for women with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (30).