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Table 4 Adjuvant medical therapy, MACCE and access site complications in women and men ≥ 70 years

From: Gender based differences in drug eluting stent implantation - data from the German ALKK registry suggest underuse of DES in elderly women

  

Women

Men

P-value

Medical therapy during PCI

Heparin (%)

Total

85.5

84.8

0.160

STEMI

90.7

91.0

0.710

NSTEMI

85.2

84.0

0.184

stable CAD

83.8

83.4

0.606

LMW-Heparin (%)

Total

3.4

3.7

0.211

STEMI

4.9

4.4

0.461

NSTEMI

5.7

6.7

0.080

stable CAD

1.5

1.9

0.065

Bivalirudin (%)

Total

0.5

0.6

0.281

STEMI

0.4

0.4

0.730

NSTEMI

0.9

0.8

0.893

stable CAD

0.4

0.6

0.113

ASA i.v. (%)

Total

43.9

41.6

<0.001

STEMI

66.0

67.1

0.434

NSTEMI

42.1

39.3

0.025

stable CAD

36.9

35.4

0.093

ASA oral (%)

Total

62.2

63.7

0.019

STEMI

46.1

47.7

0.313

NSTEMI

65.0

65.2

0.834

stable CAD

66.3

67.5

0.169

Clopidogrel (%)

Total

88.5

88.4

0.880

STEMI

91.7

92.1

0.678

NSTEMI

90.8

90.6

0.832

stable CAD

86.0

86.3

0.647

GPIIb/IIIa-Inhibitor (%)

Total

21.8

21.5

0.645

STEMI

57.4

59.7

0.085

NSTEMI

26.1

27.3

0.171

stable CAD

7.1

8.3

0.002

Procedure related mortality and MACCE

Mortality (intrahospital) (%)

Total

2.8

2.2

0.006

STEMI

9.4

8.4

0.251

NSTEMI

2.9

2.7

0.686

stable CAD

0.6

0.3

0.013

MACCE (Death, MI, Stroke/TIA) (%)

Total

3.3

2.8

0.023

STEMI

10.2

9.3

0.399

NSTEMI

3.5

3.2

0.452

stable CAD

1.2

0.8

0.031

Non-MACCE access site related complications (i.e. bleeding) (%)

Total

3.6

1.8

<0.001

STEMI

4.2

1.3

<0.001

NSTEMI

4.0

2.1

<0.001

stable CAD

3.3

1.8

<0.001

  1. (ASA acetylsalicylic acid, LMW low molecular weight, CABG Coronary artery bypass grafting, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, CAD coronary artery disease, STEMI ST-elevation myocardial infarction, NSTEMI non ST-elevation myocardial Infarction, MACCE major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event)
  2. Significant values are presented in bold