Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Does Being Unemployed Matter? Insights from the GSCAD Registry

Title:Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Does Being Unemployed Matter? Insights from the GSCAD Registry

Volume: 17 Issue: 3

Author(s): Amin Daoulah*, Salem M. Al-Faifi, William T. Hurley, Abdulaziz Alasmari, Mohammed Ocheltree, Rami H. Abushanab, Hisham Hussein, Ahmed A. Emam, Vikram Grewal, Zainab M. Jafary, Ahmad S. Hersi, Edward B. Devol, Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Ali A. Haneef, Amir Lotfi and G-SCAD investigators

Affiliation:

• Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Jeddah,Saudi Arabia

Keywords: SCAD, coronary angiography, unemployment, arabian gulf, events, gender.

Abstract: Background: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) has emerged as an important cause of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and sudden cardiac death. Physical or emotional stressors are the most commonly reported triggers for SCAD. Unemployment has been identified as a source of emotional stress and is linked to poor mental and physical health.

Objective: To examine the association between employment status and in-hospital and follow-up adverse cardiovascular events in patients with SCAD.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective, multi-center, observational study of patients undergoing coronary angiography for ACS between January 2011 and December 2017. The total number of patients enrolled was 198,000. Patients were diagnosed with SCAD based on angiographic and intravascular imaging modalities whenever available. There were 83 patients identified with SCAD from 30 medical centers in 4 Arab gulf countries. In-hospital (myocardial infarction, percutaneous intervention, ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation, cardiogenic shock, death, internal cardioverter/ defibrillator placement, dissection extension) and follow-up (myocardial infarction, de novo SCAD, death, spontaneous superior mesenteric artery dissection) cardiac events were compared among those who were employed and those who were not.

Results: The median age of patients in the study was 44 (37- 55) years. There were 42 (50.6%) female patients, and 41 (49.4) male patients. Of the cohort, 50 (60%) of the patients were employed and the remaining 33 (40%) were unemployed. 66% of all men were employed and 76% of all women were unemployed. After adjusting for gender unemployment was associated with worse in- -hospital and follow-up cardiac events (adjusted OR 7.1, [1.3, 37.9]), p = 0.021.

Conclusion: Adverse cardiovascular events were significantly worse for patients with SCAD who were unemployed.

Cite this article as:

Daoulah Amin *, Al-Faifi M. Salem , Hurley T. William , Alasmari Abdulaziz , Ocheltree Mohammed , Abushanab H. Rami , Hussein Hisham , Emam A. Ahmed , Grewal Vikram , Jafary M. Zainab , Hersi S. Ahmad , Devol B. Edward , Alsheikh-Ali A. Alawi , Haneef A. Ali , Lotfi Amir and G-SCAD investigators , Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Does Being Unemployed Matter? Insights from the GSCAD Registry, Current Cardiology Reviews 2021; 17 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573403X16999200817173944

DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573403X16999200817173944	Print ISSN 1573-403X
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher	Online ISSN 1875-6557