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ReviewCurrent cardiology reviews2019

Gender Differences in Atrial Fibrillation: A Review of Epidemiology, Management, and Outcomes.

Stacy Westerman, Nanette Wenger

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Review in Current cardiology reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 143 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
143citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

143 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 266 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Temporal association between atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke: Systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2024
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  8. Efficacy and safety of dronedarone across age and sex subgroups: a post hoc analysis of the ATHENA study among patients with non-permanent atrial fibrillation/flutter.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2022
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  12. Electrographic flow (EGF) mapping reveals sex-based differences in EGF patterns with women concentrated in phenotypes that benefit from EGF-guided ablation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2026
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83 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stacy WestermanSchool of Medicine, Emory University, 1639 Pierce Drive, WMB 308 Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
Nanette WengerSchool of Medicine, Emory University, 1639 Pierce Drive, WMB 308 Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
Emory University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. The scope and impact of atrial fibrillation are wide; it can affect cardiac function, functional status, and quality of life, and it confers a stroke risk. There are sex differences in atrial fibrillation across the scope of the disease process, from epidemiology and causative mechanisms to management and outcomes. The approach to management of atrial fibrillation differs between women and men, and there are sex differences in response to medical therapy and catheter ablation. There are many gaps in our knowledge of the gender differences in atrial fibrillation, and many opportunities for future research.

Indexed as

Atrial FibrillationCatheter AblationFemaleGender IdentityHumansMaleTreatment Outcomeantiarrhythmic drugsAtrial fibrillationcatheter ablationfuture researchgender differencesstroke.

Identifiers

PMID30516110
PMCPMC6520576
OpenAlexW2902562790

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