Are modifiable risk factors for heart failure incidence and mortality more strongly associated in women compared with men?
Modifiable risk factors such as diabetes may have a stronger association with heart failure incidence in women than in men, highlighting the need for sex-specific risk assessment.
Several modifiable risk factors (in particular diabetes) appear more strongly associated with HF in women compared with men. The relevance of these findings to HF characteristics and future outcomes needs to be established.
Sillars et al. (Wed,) studied this question.