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To the Editor: Malacrida et al. (Jan. 1 issue)¹ describe a hospital-based analysis of the outcome of acute myocardial infarction in women and men. They conclude that, after adjustment for various prognostic factors including age, there is a small independent association between female sex and early mortality and morbidity after suspected acute myocardial infarction.

However, they do not refer to the study by Sonke et al.,² who used community-based data in Auckland, New Zealand. They reported that the higher in-hospital case fatality rate in women after acute cardiac events was largely explained by the lower case fatality rate before admission . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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