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Table 2 Percent arrived to emergency department within 60 min of onset of symptoms by presenting symptom, sex, and age category

From: Sex differences in in-hospital mortality following a first acute myocardial infarction: symptomatology, delayed presentation, and hospital setting

 

Age 50 years or younger

Age 51 or older

 

Male

Female

Male

Female

Chest pain

20.1

10.2

13.1

9.8

Arrhythmia

46.2

11.1

24.5

18.9

Atypical symptoms (e.g., musculoskeletal pain, shortness of breath)

16.7

12.5

8.2

7.3

Referred to emergency department due to abnormal findings

7.1

0.0

6.3

5.9

All

21.2

10.3

13.3

9.9