Living alone, patient sex and mortality after acute myocardial infarction

Heidi N Schmaltz, Danielle Southern, William A Ghali, Susan E Jelinski, Gerry A Parsons, Kathryn M King, Colleen J Maxwell, Heidi N Schmaltz, Danielle Southern, William A Ghali, Susan E Jelinski, Gerry A Parsons, Kathryn M King, Colleen J Maxwell

Abstract

Background: Psychosocial factors, including social support, affect outcomes of cardiovascular disease, but can be difficult to measure. Whether these factors have different effects on mortality post-acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in men and women is not clear.

Objective: To examine the association between living alone, a proxy for social support, and mortality postdischarge AMI and to explore whether this association is modified by patient sex.

Design: Historical cohort study.

Participants/setting: All patients discharged with a primary diagnosis of AMI in a major urban center during the 1998-1999 fiscal year.

Measurements: Patients' sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were obtained by standardized chart review and linked to vital statistics data through December 2001.

Results: Of 880 patients, 164 (18.6%) were living alone at admission and they were significantly more likely to be older and female than those living with others. Living alone was independently associated with mortality [adjusted hazard ratio (HR) 1.6, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0-2.5], but interacted with patient sex. Men living alone had the highest mortality risk (adjusted HR 2.0, 95% CI 1.1-3.7), followed by women living alone (adjusted HR 1.2, 95% CI 0.7-2.2), men living with others (reference, HR 1.0), and women living with others (adjusted HR 0.9, 95% CI 0.5-1.5).

Conclusions: Living alone, an easily measured psychosocial factor, is associated with significantly increased longer-term mortality for men following AMI. Further prospective studies are needed to confirm the usefulness of living alone as a prognostic factor and to identify the potentially modifiable mechanisms underlying this increased risk.

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Adjusted [for age ≥75 years, comorbidities (congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease), left ventricle ejection fraction, catheterization, post-myocardial infarction congestive heart failure] survival curves over 3 years postdischarge [sample size excludes 78 patients who died during their index acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospital stay] for AMI stratified by living arrangement and patient sex.

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