Gender disparity in cardiovascular mortality following radiation therapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Radiation-induced coronary artery disease (R-CAD) has become an increasingly recognized phenomenon. Although the clinical relationship between radiation therapy and CAD risk is well known, there is minimal investigation of the gender relationship to radiation-induced CAD events and the resulting cardiovascular (CV) events/mortality. We study the gender variation in the incidence of CV events/mortality related to R-CAD in Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL) patients.

Methods

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines were used in this systematic review and network meta-analysis. OVID, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials via the Wiley Interface, Web of Science Core Collection, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar were in

SUBMITTER: Khalid Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7405444 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature