SynthesisJournal of the American Heart Association2019
Sex Differences in Quality of Life in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Quality of life following adult veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Pooled it
- Sex Differences in Quality of Life in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Pooled it
- Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation in Women: Pathophysiological Links, Clinical Challenges, and Therapeutic Perspectives.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Hidden Beats: Detection of Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation Using Questionnaires in Young Adults and Its Cardiovascular Risk Profile.Juntendo medical journal · 2026Article
- Sex differences in the initiation of antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation in Germany.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2025Article
- Stroke prophylaxis after US emergency department diagnosis and discharge of patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter from 21 hospitals.International journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life and Satisfaction in Atrial Fibrillation Patients on Anticoagulant Therapy: Differences between Vitamin K Antagonists and Direct Oral Anticoagulants; Results from the Multicentre REGUEIFA Registry.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Sex differences in early-onset atrial fibrillation in Norwegian primary care: a retrospective national database analysis.Open heart · 2024Article
- Quality of life improvement from thoracoscopic atrial fibrillation ablation in women versus men: a prospective cohort study.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2024Article
- Health-related quality of life and healthcare costs of symptoms and cardiovascular disease events in patients with atrial fibrillation: a longitudinal analysis of 27 countries from the EURObservational Research Programme on Atrial Fibrillation general long-term registry.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 · 2024Observational
- Sex Differences in the Combined Ablation and Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Results From LAACablation Registry.JACC. Asia · 2023Article
- Health Perception among Female COVID-19 Patients. Comment on Fernández-de-las-Peñas et al. Female Sex Is a Risk Factor Associated with Long-Term Post-COVID Related-Symptoms but Not with COVID-19 Symptoms: The LONG-COVID-EXP-CM Multicenter Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Health-related quality of life and fatigue in children and adults with pyruvate kinase deficiency.Blood advances · 2022Article
- Sex-related differences in self-reported treatment burden in patients with atrial fibrillation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Patient-Defined Outcome Endpoints: A Paradigm Shift in Evaluating Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Efficacy.Heart, lung & circulation · 2021Article
- Clinically Meaningful Change in Quality of Life and Associated Factors Among Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Article
- Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure: Results of the VIDA Multicenter Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Sex Differences in Presentation, Quality of Life, and Treatment in Chinese Atrial Fibrillation Patients: Insights from the China Atrial Fibrillation Registry Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2019Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: An Integrative Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
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Abstract
Background The goal of this literature review was to assess sex differences in the quality of life (QoL) in patients with atrial fibrillation ( AF ) and, if possible, to determine if these are due to AF . Methods and Results The electronic database PubMed was searched on January 23, 2018, using the search terms "QoL", gender differences, " AF " female, and gender to find potential articles that assessed sex differences in QoL in AF patients. In all, 851 articles were identified, from which 25 original studies were eligible for this systematic review. Female AF patients were found to have poorer QoL and more symptoms than male AF patients. They scored lower, predominantly on the physical component score of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36 Health Survey. Conclusions The available literature consistently describes poorer QoL in female AF patients but does not clearly address whether this is a reflection of sex differences seen in the general population or is related to AF per se. It is also questionable whether the relatively poorer QoL in women is large enough to be of clinical importance.
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