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ICDs charged with sex discrimination: Women get fewer shocks
Feb 6, 2012 17:00 EST
Differences in appropriate-therapy and device-related complication rates in a prospective study question (once again) whether women and men should have the same ICD-eligibility criteria.

Toronto, ON - Women received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) just as often as men once referred to a specialist, but they were almost a third less likely to then get appropriate device therapy and at significantly greater risk of major device-related complications, in a prospective study of >5000 patients from across Ontario [1]. Mortality was about the same in both groups.

The findings should add to entrenched misgivings about whether primary-prevention ICD indications based primarily on ventricular function, derived from a series of major trials that included predominantly men, should also apply to women.
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