The Representation of Females in Studies on Antihypertensive Medication over the Years: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The leading global risk factor for cardiovascular-disease-related morbidity and mortality is hypertension. In the past decade, attention has been paid to increase females' representation. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the representation of females and presentation of sex-stratified data in studies investigating the effect of antihypertensive drugs has increased over the past decades.

Methods

After systematically searching PubMed and Embase for studies evaluating the effect of the five major antihypertensive medication groups until May 2020, a scoping review was performed. The primary outcome was the proportion of included females. The secondary outcome was whether sex stratification was performed.

Results

The search resulted in 73,867 arti

SUBMITTER: Mohseni-Alsalhi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10216827 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature