National Trends of Sex Disparity in the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline Writing Committee Authors Over 15 Years

METHODS AND RESULTSAll materials used in this study are provided in the Data Supplement and can be used to reproduce this study.All guidelines released from the ACC/AHA from 2005 to 2019 were included in this analysis.The guidelines were divided into general cardiology, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, heart failure (HF), and pediatric cardiology.There was a total of 50 guidelines identified.Details of methods, included guidelines, and authors are provided in the Data Supplement, Table I.A total of 925 authors were extracted from these guidelines: 231 (25.0%) were women, and 694 (75.0%) were men.There was a significant increase in women on writing committees over time, from 3.6% in 2005 to 27.3% in 2019 (P=0.01; Figure [A]).Certain authors were included multiple times in various guidelines; upon excluding duplicates, a total of 555 unique authors were extracted (155 [27.9%] women versus 400 [72.1%] men).Men were repeated more frequently than women; 3 women versus 17 men were appointed as authors in >5 guidelines.Interestingly, a man author was included in 21 guidelines (Data Supplement, Table II).