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Prognostic Significance of Nonobstructive Left Main Coronary Artery Disease in Women Versus Men
Author(s) -
Joe Xie,
Parham Eshtehardi,
Tina Varghese,
Abhinav Goyal,
Puja K. Mehta,
William Kang,
Jonathon Leipsic,
Bríain ó Hartaigh,
C. Noel Bairey Merz,
Daniel S. Berman,
Heidi Gransar,
Matthew J. Budoff,
Stephan Achenbach,
Tracy Q. Callister,
Hugo Marques,
Ronen Rubinshtein,
Mouaz H. AlMallah,
Daniele Andreini,
Gianluca Pontone,
Filippo Cademartiri,
Erica Maffei,
Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan,
Gilbert Raff,
Martin Hadamitzky,
Jöerg Hausleiter,
Gudrun Feuchtner,
Philipp A. Kaufmann,
Todd C. Villines,
Benjamin J.W. Chow,
James K. Min,
Leslee J. Shaw
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.584
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1942-0080
pISSN - 1941-9651
DOI - 10.1161/circimaging.117.006246
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , coronary artery disease , cardiology , myocardial infarction , proportional hazards model , revascularization , stenosis , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , physics , optics
Patients with obstructive (≥50% stenosis) left main (LM) coronary artery disease (CAD) are at high risk for adverse events; prior studies have also documented worse outcomes among women than men with severe multivessel/LM CAD. However, the prognostic significance of nonobstructive (1%-49% stenosis) LM CAD, including sex-specific differences, has not been previously examined.

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