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The Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients (VIRGO) Classification System: A Taxonomy for Young Women With Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Circulation - 3 Nov 2015
Spatz Erica S, Curry Leslie A, Masoudi Frederick A, Zhou Shengfan, Strait Kelly M, Gross Cary P, Curtis Jeptha P, Lansky Alexandra J, Soares Barreto-Filho Jose Augusto, Lampropulos Julianna F, Bueno Hector, Chaudhry Sarwat I, D'Onofrio Gail, Safdar Basmah, Dreyer Rachel P, Murugiah Karthik, Spertus John A, Krumholz Harlan M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Current classification schemes for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may not accommodate the breadth of clinical phenotypes in young women. METHODS AND RESULTS: We developed a novel taxonomy among young adults (≤55 years) with AMI enrolled in the Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients (VIRGO) study. We first classified a subset of patients (n=600) according to the...
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