Are women with acute ischemic stroke less likely to receive intravenous rt-PA thrombolysis treatment compared with men?
There is a consistent sex disparity in acute stroke care, with women being less likely to receive intravenous rt-PA thrombolysis than men.
Despite the presence of significant between-study variation, women with acute stroke were consistently less likely to receive thrombolysis treatment compared with men. Further studies to explore the origins of this sex disparity are warranted.
Reeves et al. (2009) studied this question.