Gender gap in acute coronary heart disease: Myth or reality?

Table 4 Percentage of performed revascularizations stratified by gender

Author study/date	Design	Study population	Patients		Age (mean, yr)		P	CABG (%)		P	PCI (%)		P
			Men	Women	Men	Women		Men	Women		Men	Women
Reynolds et al[30] 2007	RCT	MI	12 498	4090	59.5	67.0	< 0.001	3.4	3.1	0.45	27.4	23.6	< 0.01
Matsui et al[26] 2002	Retro cohort	AMI	346	136	62.9	70.4	0.01	4	7	0.179	95	84	0.001
Moriel et al[28] 2005	Pros cohort	ACS	820	511	78	79	0.12	7	6	0.47	32	28	0.06
Herlitz et al[18] 2009	Retro cohort	AMI	835	588	72.7	79.2	< 0.0001	9	2	< 0.0001	15	7	NS
Setoguchi et al[31] 2008	Pros cohort	AMI	317	1308	80	82	< 0.001	3	3	0.73	10	12	0.40
Tillmanns et al[32] 2005	Pros cohort	STEMI	513	178	60	66	< 0.0001	3	2	NS	95.1	93.8
Toumpoulis et al[34] 2006	Pros cohort	CABG	2598	1162	63.2	66.2	< 0.001	100	100		1.6	3.1	0.002
Berger et al[10] 2006	Pros cohort	PCI	2953	1331	61.9	66.8	< 0.001	0.1	0.0	0.179	100	100
Alfredsson et al[11] 2007	Pros cohort	Unstable/NSTEMI	34020	19761	69	73	< 0.001	7	5		18	14
Lagerqvist et al[21] 2001	RCT	AMI	1708	749	64	68	< 0.001	30	24		34	28
SoS[37] 2004	RCT	Multivessel disease	782	206	60.6	64.7	< 0.001	50.1	52.4		49.9	47.6
Singh et al[79] 2008	Retro cohort	PCI	7616	3365	64.7	69.4		0.8	0.8		100	100
Liu et al[25] 2008	Pros cohort	STEMI + PCI	143	116	68.1	68.7	0.61				85.3	84.3	NS

MI: Myocardial infarction; CABG: Coronary artery bypass grafting; PCI: Percutaneous coronary intervention; ACS: Acute coronary syndrome; STEMI: ST elevation MI; NS: Not significant.