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Gender differences in accessing cardiac surgery across England: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England

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  • Dong, Wei
  • Ben-Shlomo, Yoav
  • Colhoun, Helen
  • Chaturvedi, Nish

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Objective: to examine gender differences in access to cardiac surgery in a nationally representative sample. Design: nationwide cross sectional household based survey (Health Survey for England). Setting: private households in England around 1993 and 1994. Subjects: 1708 subjects reporting a history of either doctor diagnosed angina or heart attack from a stratified random sample of 32[punctuation space]378 people aged 16 and above. Outcome measure: the proportion reporting having had cardiac surgery or on a waiting list. Results: 13.5% reported previous (n=206) or pending (n=25) cardiac surgery. Men were more likely than women to have had or to be waiting for cardiac surgery (19.1% of men versus 6.8% of women, [chi]2 54.7, P

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  • Dong, Wei & Ben-Shlomo, Yoav & Colhoun, Helen & Chaturvedi, Nish, 1998. "Gender differences in accessing cardiac surgery across England: a cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 47(11), pages 1773-1780, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:47:y:1998:i:11:p:1773-1780
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    1. Perelman, Julian & Mateus, Céu & Fernandes, Ana, 2010. "Gender equity in treatment for cardiac heart disease in Portugal," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 71(1), pages 25-29, July.
    2. Jenifer Hamil-Luker & Angela O’rand, 2007. "Gender differences in the link between childhood socioeconomic conditions and heart attack risk in adulthood," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 44(1), pages 137-158, February.

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