title: Sex Differences in Utilisation and Response to Implantable Device Therapy.
abstract: Multiple studies have demonstrated that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) provide significant mortality and morbidity benefits to eligible patients irrespective of gender. However, female patients are less likely to receive this life-saving therapy and are significantly under-represented in cardiac device trials. Various performance improvement programmes have proved that this gender disparity can be reduced and these therapies should be offered to all eligible patients regardless of sex. Efforts should be made to enrol more women in clinical trials and sex-specific analysis in medical device clinical studies should be encouraged. In this article we review the data on sex differences in clinical outcomes with ICDs and CRT and explore the reasons for this sex-based disparity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, US.
authors.forename: Deepika
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Narasimha
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, US.
authors.forename: Anne B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Curtis
keywords: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; cardiac resynchronisation therapy; gender differences in cardiac device utilisation; sudden cardiac death
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