Trial reportBMC women's health2018
The women's heart health programme: a pilot trial of sex-specific cardiovascular management.
Trial report in BMC women's health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02017470 (A Culture-Centered Approach to Promoting Women's Heart Health in Singapore), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers.
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A Culture-Centered Approach to Promoting Women's Heart Health in Singapore
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evaluating a Preventive Heart Health Program for Women at Midlife: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pilot Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women With Pregnancy-Related Risk Factors: A Prospective Women's Heart Clinic Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Biology, Bias, or Both? The Contribution of Sex and Gender to the Disparity in Cardiovascular Outcomes Between Women and Men.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2022Review
- Do Patients Seek Women-Centered Cardiac Care? Patient Experience of an All-Female Multidisciplinary Heart Center for Women.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Increased Risk of Valvular Heart Disease in Systemic Sclerosis: An Underrecognized Cardiac Complication.The Journal of rheumatology · 2021Article
- Why We Need Specialised Centres for Women's Hearts: Changing the Face of Cardiovascular Care for Women.European cardiology · 2021Review
- Gender disparities in clinical practice: are there any solutions? Scoping review of interventions to overcome or reduce gender bias in clinical practice.International journal for equity in health · 2020Article
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Events Among Incident Cases of Systemic Sclerosis: Results From a Population-Based Cohort (1980-2016).Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is increasing knowledge of sex-specific differences in cardiovascular disease and recognition of sex disparities in management. In our study, we investigated whether a cardiovascular programme tailored to the specific needs of women could lead to improved outcomes.
methodsWe randomised 100 female patients to receive cardiology follow-up with the conventional sex-neutral cardiac programme (control), or the sex-tailored Women's Heart Health Programme (intervention). The intervention group was managed by an all-women multidisciplinary team and received culture-centred health intervention workshops, designed through in-depth interviews with the participants. The primary outcome was cardiovascular risk factor improvement at 1 year. Secondary outcomes include cardiovascular event rates, quality of life scores, and self-reported improvement in knowledge, attitudes, intentions and practices. Generalised structural equation model analysis was used to determine if the intervention group had better outcomes at alpha level 0.1.
resultsThe mean age was 67.3 ± 12.7 years, with an ethnic distribution of 70% Chinese, 18% Malays, and 12% Indians. The majority of these patients had no formal or primary level of education (63%), and were mostly unemployed (78%). Patients in intervention group had better control of diabetes mellitus (lower HbA1c of 0.63% [CI 0.21-1.04], p = 0.015) and lower body-mass-index (0.74 kg/m
conclusionThis pilot study is the first of its kind evaluating a new model of care for women with heart disease. The potential to improve outcomes needs to be studied in a larger trial with longer follow up.
trial registrationThis trial was prospectively registered clinicaltrials.gov on 6 May 2013. Trial Number: 2013/00088. Identifier: NCT02017470.
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