Epidemiology and clinical course of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

CSP Lam, E Donal, E Kraigher‐Krainer… - European journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) is increasingly recognized as a major
public health problem worldwide. Significant advances have been made in our …

[HTML][HTML] Heart failure in women

B Bozkurt, S Khalaf - Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Heart failure is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in women, and they tend to
develop it at an older age compared to men. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is …

Sex differences in outcomes and responses to spironolactone in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a secondary analysis of TOPCAT trial

M Merrill, NK Sweitzer, JA Lindenfeld, DP Kao - JACC: Heart Failure, 2019 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to investigate sex differences in outcomes and responses to
spironolactone in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) …

Sex and race differences in right ventricular structure and function: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis–Right Ventricle Study

SM Kawut, JAC Lima, RG Barr, H Chahal, A Jain… - Circulation, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Right ventricular (RV) morphology is an important predictor of outcomes in
heart and lung disease; however, determinants of RV anatomy have not been well studied …

How do patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction die?

MMY Chan, CSP Lam - European journal of heart failure, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) die
provides insight into the natural history and pathophysiology of this complex syndrome …

Sex differences in clinical characteristics and outcomes in elderly patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: the Irbesartan in Heart Failure with …

CSP Lam, PE Carson, IS Anand, TS Rector… - Circulation: Heart …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—There are few sex-specific outcome data in heart failure with preserved
ejection fraction. Methods and Results—We assessed sex differences in baseline …

Heart failure in women: a need for prospective data

EM Hsich, IL Piña - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2009 - jacc.org
Heart failure affects 5 million Americans, and nearly 50% of these are women. Sex
differences have been noted regarding the underlying etiology, pathophysiology, and …

[HTML][HTML] Role of biological sex in normal cardiac function and in its disease outcome–a review

K Prabhavathi, KT Selvi, KN Poornima… - Journal of clinical and …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biological sex plays an important role in normal cardiac physiology as well as in the heart's
response to cardiac disease. Women generally have better cardiac function and survival …

Sex-based cardiac physiology

ED Luczak, LA Leinwand - Annual review of physiology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Biological sex plays an important role in normal cardiac physiology as well as in the heart's
response to cardiac disease. Women generally have better cardiac function and survival …

Gender and cardiovascular disease: are sex-biased microRNA networks a driving force behind heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in women?

BW Florijn, R Bijkerk, EP van der Veer… - Cardiovascular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary cause of death among men and women
worldwide. Nevertheless, our comprehension of how CVD progresses in women and elicits …