Highlights the existence of gender disparities in the use of percutaneous coronary procedures and cardiovascular outcomes, emphasizing the need to address treatment biases.
May indicate treatment biases in women with CAD; leaves open whether equity interventions reduce events.
Cardiovascular disease represents the main health problem for women as it is the leading cause of death and morbidity. In recent years, technological advances and experience gained by surgeons and cardiologists has resulted in a significant improvement of percutaneous coronary procedures, which has been demonstrated to be safe and effective for both men and women. However, gender disparities in the management of coronary artery disease, specifically in the rate of use of these interventional procedures, as well as in the incidence of cardiovascular events have been reported. Treatment inequalities may also impact on outcomes. Possible reasons for treatment bias include a patient's preferences, a physician's decisions, biological and pathophysiological gender differences and inadequate evidence-based medicine among women.
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Grinfeld et al. (2009) studied this question.
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