Why the study?
Does female sex affect the risk of fatal and nonfatal outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Does female sex affect the risk of fatal and nonfatal outcomes in patients with heart failure?
Women with heart failure have a better prognosis than men, independent of LVEF or heart failure etiology.
Supports incorporating sex into HF risk assessment; extends observational data but leaves open intervention targets.
Among patients with heart failure, women have lower risks of most fatal and nonfatal outcomes that are not explained, as previously suggested, by LVEF or origin of the heart failure.
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O’Meara et al. (2007) studied this question.
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