Sex Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis in a Broad Spectrum of Patients With Heart Failure
Author(s) -
Eileen O’Meara,
Tim Clayton,
Margaret McEntegart,
John J.V. McMurray,
Ileana L. Piña,
Christopher B. Granger,
Jan Östergren,
Eric L. Michelson,
Scott D. Solomon,
Stuart J. Pocock,
Salim Yusuf,
Karl Swedberg,
Marc A. Pfeffer
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.106.673442
Subject(s) - medicine , ejection fraction , heart failure , hazard ratio , cardiology , candesartan , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , blood pressure , renin–angiotensin system
We wished to test previous hypotheses that sex-related differences in mortality and morbidity may be due to differences in the cause of heart failure or in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by comparing fatal and nonfatal outcomes in women and men with heart failure and a broad spectrum of left ventricular ejection fraction.
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