Heart Failure Different in Women

Women with heart failure live longer than men with the disease, but they have more illness and hospitalizations and poorer overall quality of life, a review of the research shows.

The analysis confirms that men and women often have different risk factors for developing heart failure, and it suggests that responses to treatment may also vary by gender. But study co-author Eileen M. Hsich, MD, of Cleveland Clinic's Women's Heart Failure Clinic, says far too little is known about how gender affects treatment because women are still underrepresented in clinical studies and most heart failure trials do not report results in a sex-specific way.

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