Women and outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery: Do we have an answer?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 935-937

  Vaccarino, Viola ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345490837     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(03)00452-6     Document Type: Editorial

References (26)

1. American Heart Association. 2002 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update. Dallas, Tex: American Heart Association; 2001.
2. Jacobs AK. Coronary revascularization in women in 2003. Sex revisited. Circulation 2003;107:375-7.
3. Yusuf S, Zucker D, Peduzzi P, et al. Effect of coronary artery bypass graft surgery on survival: overview of 10-year results from randomised trials by the Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Trialists Collaboration. Lancet 1994;344:563-70.
4. Fisher LD, Kennedy JW, Davis KD, et al. Association of sex, physical size and operative mortality after coronary artery bypass in Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS). J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 1982;84:334-41.
5. Aldea GS, Gaudiani JM, Shapira OM, et al. Effect of gender on postoperative outcomes and hospital stays after coronary artery bypass grafting. Ann Thorac Surg 1999;67:1097-103.
6. King KB, Clark PC, Hicks GL. Patterns of referral and recovery in women and men undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Am J Cardiol 1992;69:179-82.
7. Loop FD, Golding LR, MacMillan JP, et al. Coronary artery surgery in women compared with men: analyses of risks and long-term results. J Am Coll Cardiol 1983;1:383-90.
8. Douglas JS, King SBI, Craver JM, et al. Reduced efficacy of coronary bypass surgery in women. Circulation 1981;64(2 Suppl):II-11-6.
9. Khan SS, Nessim S, Gray R, et al. Increased mortality of women in coronary artery bypass surgery: evidence for referral bias. Ann Intern Med 1990;112:561-7.
10. O'Connor GT, Morton JR, Diehl MJ, et al. Differences between men and women in hospital mortality associated with coronary bypass graft surgery. Circulation 1993;88:2104-10.
11. Sjoland H, Caidahl K, Karlson BW, et al. Limitation of physical activity, dyspnea and chest pain before and two years after coronary artery bypass grafting in relation to sex. Int J Cardiol 1997; 61:123-33.
12. Herlitz J, Wiklund I, Sjoland H, et al. Relief of symptoms and improvement of health-related quality of life five years after coronary artery bypass graft in women and men. Clin Cardiol 2001;24: 385-92.
13. Rankin S. Differences in recovery from cardiac surgery: a profile of male and female patients. Heart Lung 1990;19:481-5.
14. Stewart RD, Blair JL, Emond CE, et al. Gender and functional outcome after coronary artery bypass. Surgery 1999;126:184-90.
15. Ayanian JZ, Guadagnoli E, Cleary PD. Physical and psychosocial functioning of women and men after coronary artery bypass surgery. JAMA 1995;274:1767-70.
16. King KM, Collins-Nakai RL. Short term recovery from cardiac surgery in women: suggestions for practice. Can J Cardiol 1998;14: 1367-71.
17. King KB, Porter LA, Rowe MA. Functional, social, and emotional outcomes in women and men in the first year following coronary artery bypass surgery. J Womens Health 1994;3:347-54.
18. Sjoland H, Wiklund I, Caidahl K, et al. Improvement in quality of life differs between women and men after coronary artery bypass surgery. J Intern Med 1999;245:445-54.
19. Vaccarino V, Lin ZQ, Kasl SV, et al. Sex differences in recovery after coronary artery bypass surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41: 307-14.
20. Davis CE. The effect of regression to the mean in epidemiologic and clinical studies. Am J Epidemiol 1976;104:493-8.
21. Czajkowski SM, Terrin M, Lindquist R, et al. Comparison of preoperative characteristics of men and women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (the Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft [CABG] Biobehavioral Study). Am J Cardiol 1997; 79:1017-24.
22. Becher H. The concept of residual confounding in regression models and some applications. Stat Med 1992;11:1747-58.
23. Hogue CW Jr, Barzilai B, Pieper KS, et al. Sex differences in neurological outcomes and mortality after cardiac surgery: a society of thoracic surgery national database report. Circulation 2001; 103:2133-7.
24. O'Rourke DJ, Malenka DJ, Olmstead EM, et al. Improved in-hospital mortality in women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group. Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:507-11.
25. Krumholz HM, Douglas PS, Lauer MS, et al. Selection of patients for coronary angiography and coronary revascularization early after myocardial infarction: is there evidence for a gender bias? Ann Intern Med 1992;116:785-90.
26. Hochman JS, Tamis JE, Thompson TD, et al. Sex, clinical presentation, and outcome in patients with acute coronary syndromes. N Engl J Med 1999;341:226-32.