Persistent sex disparities in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy.
Amber E JohnsonShubash AdhikariAndrew D AlthouseFloyd ThomaOscar C MarroquinStephen KoscumbLeslie R M HausmannLarissa MyaskovskySamir F SabaPublished in: Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE (2018)
In this large, outpatient cohort, we have shown that sex differences in ICD therapy continue to exist, but the difference in ICD prevalence by race was attenuated. Dedicated studies are required to fully understand the causes of persistent sex differences in ICD therapy.