Women, AMI, and Missed Diagnoses – All in the Symptoms?
‘Typical’ AMI symptoms occurred in only 1% of women studied
A new study may go far to help explain why acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is missed more frequently in women than in men. When presenting with AMI, women have substantially more variation in unique symptom phenotypes, broader distribution of symptom phenotype subgroups, and a higher number of symptoms per patient than men.