Influence of Gender on In-Hospital Clinical and Angiographic Outcomes and on One-Year Follow-Up In the New Approaches to Coronary Intervention (NACI) Registry

Higher complication rates and lower success rates for treatment of women compared with men have been reported in prior studies of coronary angioplasty and in most early reports of outcome with new coronary interventional devices. In multivariate analysis this has been attributed largely to older age and other unfavorable clinical characteristics. These results are reflected in the current guidelines for coronary angioplasty. Women in prior …