Gender and survival in patients with heart failure: interactions with diabetes and aetiology. Results from the MAGGIC individual patient meta-analysis

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Gender and survival in patients with heart failure: interactions with diabetes and aetiology. Results from the MAGGIC individual patient meta-analysis

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While the populations of patients with heart failure (HF) studied in clinical trials are dominated by men, in routine clinical practice half or more of all patients with HF are women.1,2 Whether prognosis differs for men and women with HF is controversial. Many studies have associated female sex with better survival,1 – 14 although several failed to identify such an association15 – 18 and one study has reported worse prognosis for women.19 Moreover, in HF populations, sex is strongly associat...

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2012

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Martínez-Sellés, Manuel / Whalley, Gillian / Doughty, Robert N. / Poppe, K.K. / Earle, Nikki / Tribouilloy, Christophe / McMurray, John J.V. / Swedberg, Karl / Køber, Lars / Berry, Colin / Squire, I.B.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2117

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heart failure / prognosis / sex / ejection fraction / diabetes / aetiology / diabetics / Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

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