Journal article
Sex Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis in a Broad Spectrum of Patients With Heart Failure
Abstract
BACKGROUND: 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.
METHODS AND RESULTS: We compared outcomes in 2400 women and 5199 men randomized in the Candesartan in …
Authors
O’Meara E; Clayton T; McEntegart MB; McMurray JJV; Piña IL; Granger CB; Östergren J; Michelson EL; Solomon SD; Pocock S
Journal
Circulation, Vol. 115, No. 24, pp. 3111–3120
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
June 19, 2007
DOI
10.1161/circulationaha.106.673442
ISSN
0009-7322