Women receive less evidence-based medical care than men and have higher rates of death after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It is unclear whether efforts undertaken to improve AMI care have mitigated these sex disparities in the current era.
Division of Cardiology, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jneid@bcm.tmc.edu