Women with heart failure–related cardiogenic shock have worse outcomes and more vascular complications than men, a new analysis of registry data shows.
"These data identify the need for us to continue working to identify barriers in terms of diagnosis, management, and technological innovations for women in cardiogenic shock to resolve these issues and improve outcomes," the ssenior author of the study, Navin Kapur, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
The study is said to be the one of the largest contemporary analyses of real-world registry data on the characteristics and outcomes of women in comparison with men with cardiogenic shock.
It showed sex-specific differences in outcomes that were primarily driven by differences in heart failure–related cardiogenic shock. Women with heart failure–related cardiogenic shock had more severe cardiogenic shock, worse survival at discharge, and more vascular complications than men. Outcomes in cardiogenic shock related to MI were similar for men and women.
The study, which will be presented at the upcoming American Heart Association meeting, was published online in JACC: Heart Failure on November 6.
Kapur founded the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group in 2017 to collect quality data on the condition.
"We realized our patients were dying, and we didn't have enough data on how best to manage them.
