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Medical Treatment in Coronary Patients: Is there Still a Gender Gap? Results from European Society of Cardiology EUROASPIRE V Registry
- Source :
- Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy. 35:801-808
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- This study is aimed at investigating gender differences in the medical management of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Analyses were based on the ESC EORP EUROASPIRE V (European Survey Of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention And Diabetes) survey. Consecutive patients between 18 and 80 years, hospitalized for a coronary event, were included in the study. Information on cardiovascular medication intake at hospital discharge and at follow-up (≥ 6 months to 0.01) at discharge and follow-up respectively. However, a statistically significant difference was found in the use of statins at follow-up, in disfavor of women (82.8% vs. 77.7%; P 0.01). Furthermore, women were less likely than men to have received a CABG (20.4% vs. 13.2%; P
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Pharmacology
medicine.medical_specialty
Rehabilitation
Medical treatment
Heart disease
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
General Medicine
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Conventional PCI
medicine
Hospital discharge
Pharmacology (medical)
Myocardial infarction
Gender gap
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15737241 and 09203206
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........3462c1f396a5cc8c7433382739a0745b