Results from the Multicenter ACCURACY trial Background The diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) in women remains a challenge, given their lower prevalence of obstructive disease and the suboptimal performance of traditional noninvasive tests (exercise electrocardiography and stress myocardial perfusion imaging). Coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is a validated method for detection and exclusion of […]
Cardiology, CVD, Diagnostics, medical devices
The Safety and effectiveness of medical treatments can differ in men and women for many reasons related to different epidemiologic characteristics, physiology, and body size. In general, women have higher bleeding rates and procedural morbidity and mortality than men, which means that their risk/benefit ratios for many implanted medical devices can differ from men. Therefore, […]
medical devicesEvaluating Sex Differences in Medical Device Clinical Trials (Editorial) by SS Dhruva & RF Redberg Medical Treatments Editorial Druma and Redberg
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