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Post-PCI, Worse Outcomes
for Women?
< 55
The age of women undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI)
for acute coronary syndrome who are more likely to experience 1-year adverse
cardiovascular events due to risk factors such as diabetes and chronic kidney
disease, even though they are less likely to receive potent antiplatelet therapy
than men. The study also found that outcomes for both men and women
post-PCI are dependent on their baseline risk factors, not their sex.
Source: Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. News release. May 6, 2016.
Statin
Stumper
81.9%
Can Gait Speed
Predict Cardiac
Surgery Outcomes?
11%
The increase in operative mortality for each 0.1 meter/second decrease
in gait speed prior to surgery. Gait speed is one of the most commonly
used tests to screen for frailty. Researchers found that slow gait speed
was independently predictive of operative mortality and, to a lesser
extent, a composite outcome of mortality or major morbidity. This result
was observed across a spectrum of the most commonly performed cardiac surgical procedures used to treat ischemic and valvular heart disease.
The amount of women prescribed statin therapy compared to 87.7%
of men. Additionally, 67.0% of women compared to 71.4% of men
continued statin therapy. This study found that women were less
likely than men to have been evaluated by a cardiologist and were
less likely to report adverse reactions to statins. In addition, younger patients and those with a history of smoking were more likely
to have continued taking statins through the period of the study.
Women, on average, experience coronary artery disease 10 years
later than men and have lower smoking rates than men, both of
which may partially contribute to the sex disparity in statin therapy.
Source: JAMA Cardiology. News release. May 11, 2016.
Source: Brigham and Women’s Hospital. News release. May 5, 2016.
Calcium Conundrum
5,917
The number of heart attacks per 100,000 that may be caused in 65-year-old women
taking 1,000 mg calcium supplements every day. Researchers also reported 4,373
strokes in this group. According to researchers, these numbers outweigh the 5,890 hip
fractures and 3,820 other fractures that would be prevented.
Source: Norwegian University of Science and Technology. News release. May 12, 2016.
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