… Among patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF), slightly more than 50% are women,
and a substantial portion have HF with preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF).1, 2 …

… Records of all hospitalizations were reviewed, and an independent morbidity and mortality
subcommittee blinded to treatment assignment adjudicated all suspected outcome events, …

… markedly declining, mortality from heart failure is increasing ; … women with heart failure
had ischaemic heart disease as the underlying cause : 15 % of the men and 22 % of the women …

… prevalence of anemia in postmenopausal women with heart failure. However, other studies
… in women compared with men for another reason. In most studies of heart failure, women are …

… the prognosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) and mortality trendsfor this condition. We …
prognosis after the development of heart failure was more favorable in women than in men (…

… survival is better for women with heart failure compared with men… heart failure but is attenuated
by concomitant diabetes. … with men, women with HF have lower all-cause mortality over 3 …

… mortality rates for coronary heart disease during the past 3 decades, the incidence of heart
failure … higher frequency of unknown cause of heart failure in women. It is also possible that …

… Despite declining age-adjusted incidence and mortality rates for coronary heart disease (…
predominates in women.4, 5 This underrepresentation of women in clinical heart failure trials …

… morbidities in patients with heart failure is much higher compared to age-matched controls.
We will specifically address the most studied organ-related co-morbidities… common in women, …

… of morbidity pairs by type of heart failure (preserved or reduced ejection fraction) and sex. …
Within men and women, differences by type of heart failure were tested using Fisher's exact …