Sex-specific mortality differences in heart failure patients with ischemia receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent studies have reported prognosis differences between male and female heart failure patients following cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). However, the potential clinical factors that underpin these differences remain to be elucidated.

Methods

A meta-analysis was performed to investigate the factors that characterize sex-specific differences following CRT. This analysis involved searching the Medline (Pubmed source) and Embase databases in the period from January 1980 to September 2016.

Results

Fifty-eight studies involving 33445 patients (23.08% of whom were women) were analyzed as part of this study. Only patients receiving CRT with follow-up greater than six months were included in our analysis. Compared with males, females exhibited a reductio

SUBMITTER: Han Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5500352 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature