Primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and survival in older women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to assess the benefit of primary prevention implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in women.

Background

Clinical trials of primary prevention ICDs enrolled a limited number of women.

Methods

Using a propensity score method, we matched 490 women ≥65 years of age who received an ICD during a hospitalization for heart failure in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry ICD Registry from January 1, 2006, through December 31, 2007, to 490 ICD-eligible women without an ICD hospitalized for heart failure in the Get With The Guidelines for Heart Failure database from January 1, 2006, through December 31, 2009. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality obtained from the Medicare Claims Database. An identical analysis was con

SUBMITTER: Zeitler EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4461749 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature