Are women adequately represented in contemporary atrial fibrillation ablation randomized controlled trials?
Women are underrepresented in AF ablation RCTs and present with different clinical profiles, limiting the generalizability of trial results to female patients.
Women were underrepresented in contemporary AF ablation RCTs. Additionally, women enrolled in AF RCTs were likely to have more comorbidities but less advanced AF, limiting the applicability of the results to women with AF.
Khaing et al. (Fri,) studied this question.