Therapy to Prevent Heart Failure More Effective in Women than Men
Posted Feb 07 2011 10:29pm
Never before has a therapy proven more beneficial for women than men in preventing heart disease – until now.
A new study, published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that women receive a significantly greater benefit – a 70 percent reduction in heart failure and a 72 percent reduction in death – from cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) than men.
“In prior cardiac studies, men and women generally received similar benefit from preventive medical therapy,” said cardiologist Arthur J. Moss, M.D., professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and lead author of the study. “Our finding was unexpected, but extremely important because this is the only heart treatment that is clearly better in women than men.”
Never before has a therapy proven more beneficial for women than men in preventing heart disease – until now.
A new study, published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that women receive a significantly greater benefit – a 70 percent reduction in heart failure and a 72 percent reduction in death – from cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) than men.
“In prior cardiac studies, men and women generally received similar benefit from preventive medical therapy,” said cardiologist Arthur J. Moss, M.D., professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and lead author of the study. “Our finding was unexpected, but extremely important because this is the only heart treatment that is clearly better in women than men.”