STUDY OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to analyse whether the risk of @entity204 within 28 days and three years after a first Q wave @entity583 was higher in hospitalised @entity1 than in @entity1 . DESIGN: Follow up study. @entity1 AND SETTING: All consecutive first Q wave @entity583 @entity1 aged 25 to 74 years (447 @entity1 and 2322 @entity1 ) admitted to a tertiary hospital in Gerona, Spain, from 1978 to 1997 were registered and followed up for three years. MAIN RESULTS: @entity1 were older, presented more comorbidity and developed more severe @entity583 than @entity1 . A significant interaction was found between sex and age. @entity1 aged 65-74 had higher early mortality risk than @entity1 of the same age (OR 1.62; 95% CI 1.01, 2.66) after adjusting for age, comorbidity and acute complications including @entity712 . @entity1 under 65 tended to be at lower risk of early mortality than @entity1 (0.45 (95% CI 0.19, 1.04). Three year mortality of 28 day survivors did not differ between sexes. CONCLUSIONS: These data support the idea that the higher 28 day mortality in hospitalised @entity1 with a first Q wave @entity583 is mainly attributable to the large number of @entity1 aged 65 to 74 years in whom the risk is higher than that in @entity1 . @entity1 under 65 with @entity583 do not seem to be a special group of risk.

Role of age and sex in short-term and long term mortality after a first Q wave XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'Women', 'PATIENTS', 'men'] @entity583 :: ('MESH:D009203', 'Disease') :: ['myocardial infarction', 'myocardial infarctions'] @entity712 :: ('MESH:D006333', 'Disease') :: ['heart failure'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['death']
@entity583 :: (MESH:D009203,Disease) :: ['myocardial infarction']
