Evidence for a "gender paradox" in diabetic patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Adverse preprocedural risk but favorable long-term clinical outcome in women

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 962-967

  Boccuzzi, Giacomo ^a   Belli, Guido ^a   Pagnotta, Paolo ^a   Rossi, Marco Luciano ^a   Parenti, Dennis Zavalloni ^a   Milone, Francesco ^a   Aldrovandi, Annachiara ^a   Scatturin, Melania ^a   Morenghi, Emanuela ^a   Presbitero, Patrizia ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Female gender; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646096765     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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