Key result
Male gender is linked to ~71% more cardiac events, despite comparable exercise echo prognostic value.
Why the study?
Limited information exists regarding gender differences in the prognostic value of exercise echocardiography.
Does the prognostic value of exercise echocardiography differ between men and women with known or suspected coronary artery disease?
Population
5,798 consecutive patients undergoing exercise echocardiography for known or suspected CAD
Comparison
Men vs women
Design
Observational cohort study
Follow-up
3.2 +/- 1.7 years
Authors
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Exercise echocardiography provides comparable incremental prognostic value for predicting cardiac events in both men and women with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
Cohort (n=5,798)
Does the prognostic value of exercise echocardiography differ between men and women with known or suspected coronary artery disease?
Absolute Event Rate: 5.3% vs 3.1%
p-value: p=0.001
Exercise echocardiography provides comparable incremental prognostic value for predicting cardiac events in both men and women with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
Arruda‐Olson et al. (2002) conducted a cohort in known or suspected coronary artery disease (n=5,798). Male gender vs. Female gender was evaluated on Cardiac events, including cardiac death and nonfatal myocardial infarction (p=0.001). Male gender was associated with a higher rate of cardiac events than female gender (5.3% vs 3.1%, p=0.001), but the incremental prognostic value of exercise echocardiography was comparable.
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