A meta-analysis of 31 studies (MAGGIC) [
[1]
] has shown that women with heart failure (HF) have better survival than men. However,
these studies were limited by selective patient populations (e.g. randomized controlled
trials, hospital-based cohorts), relatively small study samples (N ≤ 500), or short follow-up. Other analyses of the MAGICC data indicated that in HF patients
of ischemic etiology [
2
,
3
] or concomitant diabetes mellitus (DM) [
[3]
], differences in survival between sexes are largely attenuated. In this population-based,
retrospective cohort study we assess long-term survival of men and women with HF.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: March 20, 2017
Accepted:
March 15,
2017
Received in revised form:
March 14,
2017
Received:
March 9,
2017
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