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Cardiac rehabilitation referral, attendance and mortality in women

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This is the first large cohort study to demonstrate that referral to and attendance at CR is associated with a significant mortality reduction in women, comparatively better than that in men.
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BackgroundCardiac rehabilitation (CR) reduces mortality in women and men with coronary artery disease (CAD). The objective of this study was to examine sex differences in long-term mortality, based...

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Sex Differences in Heart Failure

TL;DR: This review outlines the key sex differences with respect to clinical characteristics, pathophysiology, and therapeutic responses to HF treatments and addresses important differences in the prognosis of HF.
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Preventing and experiencing ischemic heart disease as a woman: State of the science: A scientific statement from the American Heart Association

TL;DR: Gender differences are intimately involved in risk factors and risk behaviors that play a far greater role in outcomes among women with IHD than biological sex differences, given that 80% of heart disease is preventable.
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Cardiac Rehabilitation for Women: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Solutions.

TL;DR: Support is found for the use of automatic referral and assisted enrollment to improve CR participation in women, and a small number of studies suggest that incentive‐based strategies, as well as home‐based programs, may contribute to improving CR attendance and completion rates.
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AHA/ACCF Secondary Prevention and Risk Reduction Therapy for Patients With Coronary and Other Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: 2011 Update A Guideline From the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Foundation

TL;DR: The development of the present guideline involved a process of partial adaptation of other guideline statements and reports and supplemental literature searches, which confirmed that in patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease, comprehensive risk factor management reduces risk as assessed by a variety of outcomes.
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Meta-Analysis: Secondary Prevention Programs for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

TL;DR: A systematic review to update earlier work and to determine the effects of different types of secondary prevention programs (particularly those with a structured exercise component versus those without) on mortality, MI, or hospitalization rates in patients with established CAD.
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AHA/ACCF Secondary Prevention and Risk Reduction Therapy for Patients With Coronary and Other Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: 2011 Update

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the 2006 update of the American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) guidelines on secondary prevention and provide evidence from clinical trials that further supports and broadens the merits of intensive risk-reduction therapies for secondary prevention.
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National Study of Physician Awareness and Adherence to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guidelines

TL;DR: Perception of risk was the primary factor associated with CVD preventive recommendations, and gender disparities in recommendations for preventive therapy were explained largely by the lower perceived risk despite similar calculated risk for women versus men.
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