Baseline thrombocytopenia in women with coronary heart disease increases incident acute coronary syndrome: insights from national inpatient database

There are paucity of data on gender-based differences in the effect of thrombocytopenia and coronary heart disease (CHD) towards development of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We used National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database of the United States to assess the gender-based differences in the association of thrombocytopenia with CHD and the impact of thrombocytopenia on mortality, length of stay and hospitalization costs on ACS subgroup of CHD. Our analysis found that thrombocytopenia was associated with increased odds of CHD on univariate (odds ratio [OR] 1.31 (95% CI 1.30–1.32) p