Comorbidities in heart failure: are there gender differences?

I Hopper, D Kotecha, KL Chin, RJ Mentz… - Current heart failure …, 2016 - Springer
Compared to men, women with heart failure (HF) are often older, smoke less, and have
more preserved ejection fraction (EF) and hypertensive HF rather than HF of ischemic …

Sex‐and age‐related differences in the management and outcomes of chronic heart failure: an analysis of patients from the ESC HFA EORP Heart Failure Long‐Term …

M Lainščak, I Milinković, M Polovina… - European journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aims This study aimed to assess age‐and sex‐related differences in management and 1‐
year risk for all‐cause mortality and hospitalization in chronic heart failure (HF) patients …

[HTML][HTML] Sacubitril/Valsartan in the Treatment of Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Focusing on the Impact on the Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and …

P Bhattacharjee, Z Khan - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There exists a paucity of research data reported by analyses performed on randomized
clinical trials (RCTs) that encompass quality of life (QOL) and the aftermath for patients …

[HTML][HTML] Gender based survival prediction models for heart failure patients: A case study in Pakistan

FM Zahid, S Ramzan, S Faisal, I Hussain - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objectives The objective of this study was to build and assess the performance of survival
prediction models using the gender-specific informative risk factors for patients with left …

[HTML][HTML] Female sex is associated with worse prognosis in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in China

Y Wang, J Wang, Y Zou, J Bao, K Sun, L Zhu, T Tian… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Sex plays an important role in the clinical expression and prognosis of various
cardiovascular diseases. This study was designed to observe the effects of sex on …

[HTML][HTML] Why to use propensity score in observational studies? Case study based on data from the Czech clinical database AHEAD 2006–09

S Littnerova, J Jarkovsky, J Parenica, T Pavlik, J Spinar… - Cor et Vasa, 2013 - Elsevier
Randomized clinical trials represent the gold standard of the evidence based medicine
research; nevertheless they may not always be feasible or ethical and the researchers have …

Gender differences in clinical characteristics and outcome of acute heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa: results of the THESUS-HF study

OS Ogah, BA Davison, K Sliwa, BM Mayosi… - Clinical Research in …, 2015 - Springer
Background The impact of gender on the clinical characteristics, risk factors, co-morbidities,
etiology, treatment and outcome of acute heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa has not been …

Psychosocial factors partially explain gender differences in health‐related quality of life in heart failure patients

J Tapia, M Basalo, C Enjuanes, E Calero… - ESC Heart …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims There is little information about the influence of gender on quality of life (QoL) in heart
failure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the health‐related QoL gap …

Interplay between psychosocial and heart failure related factors may partially explain limitations in self-efficacy in patients with heart failure: Insights from a real-world …

E Calero-Molina, P Moliner, E Hidalgo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and aims Worse self-care is associated with a higher risk of readmission and
mortality in patients with heart failure (HF). Little is known about how the interplay between …

[HTML][HTML] Rationale, design, methodology and hospital characteristics of the first Gulf Acute Heart Failure Registry (Gulf CARE)

KJ Sulaiman, P Panduranga, I Al-Zakwani… - Heart …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background: There is paucity of data on heart failure (HF) in the Gulf Middle East. The
present paper describes the rationale, design, methodology and hospital characteristics of …