Do sex and age influence survival and outcomes in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy?
In patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, women exhibit better survival than men, and contemporary treatments are associated with favorable outcomes and a low incidence of sudden death.
Women with DCM have better survival compared to men, which may partly be due to less severe left ventricular dysfunction and a smaller scar burden. There is increased mortality driven by non-sudden death in patients >60 years of age that is less marked in women. Outcomes with contemporary treatment were favourable, with a low incidence of sudden death.
Halliday et al. (Sun,) studied this question.