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Mayo Clinic study finds heart disease burden shifting toward women, elderly.(Brief Article)
2002 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The heart attack rate for women increased by 36% during the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when heart attacks among men were declining by 8%, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study traced changes from 1979 through 1994 in heart attacks that led to hospitalization among residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic study examined heart attack trends among all adult age groups; few previous population-based studies have included people older than 74. Heart attack rates among 40-year-old men went down by nearly one-third, but increased almost 50% for women over 80 years of age. And while heart attack survival improved markedly for younger patients, it remained essentially unchanged for those over 75.
"A quarter century ago heart disease was seen as primarily a men's disease," said Veronique Roger, MD, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and lead author of the study. "Given the trends observed in ...
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