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Representation of Women in Internal Medicine Specialties in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australasia: Cardiology's Outlier Status and the Importance of Diversity. Am J Cardiol 2022; 185:122-128. [DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Huang A, Xu H, Keehn C, Lee AG. Re: Ganjei et al.: Descriptive analysis of United States glaucoma fellowship program directors (Ophthalmol Glaucoma. 2022;5:241-244). Ophthalmol Glaucoma 2022; 5:e26. [PMID: 35798669 DOI: 10.1016/j.ogla.2022.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Austin Huang
- Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, Texas; University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
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Ganjei AY, Shalaby WS, Al-Aswad LA, Myers JS, Shukla AG. Reply. Ophthalmol Glaucoma 2022; 5:e26-e27. [PMID: 35798668 DOI: 10.1016/j.ogla.2022.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Allen Y Ganjei
- Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
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- Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
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Burgess S, Cader FA, Shaw E, Banerjee S, Stehli J, Krishnamorthy R, Khor L, Forotan H, Bastiany A, Rao S, Chandrasekhar J, Zaman S, Alasnag M, Chieffo A, Coylewright M. Under-representation of Women as Proceduralists and Patients in TAVR and TMVr Procedures: Data, Implications and Proposed Solutions. Eur Cardiol 2022; 17:e27. [PMID: 36845217 PMCID: PMC9947929 DOI: 10.15420/ecr.2022.33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Women are under-represented among transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) operators. This review assesses the representation of women as patients and as proceduralists and trial authors in major structural interventions. Women are under-represented as proceduralists in structural interventions: only 2% of TAVR operators and 1% of TMVr operators are women. Only 1.5% of authors in landmark clinical TAVR and TMVr trials are interventional cardiologists who are women (4/260). Significant under-representation and under-enrolment of women in landmark TAVR trials is evident: the calculated participation-to-prevalence ratio (PPR) is 0.73, and in TMVr trials, the PPR is 0.69. Under-representation of women is also evident in registry data (PPR = 0.84 for TAVR registries and for TMVr registries). In structural interventional cardiology, women are under-represented as proceduralists, trial participants and patients. This under-representation has the potential to affect the recruitment of women to randomised trials, subsequent guideline recommendations, selection for treatment, patient outcomes and sex-specific data analysis.
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- Sonya Burgess
- Department of Medicine, University of SydneySydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Cardiology, Nepean HospitalSydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research InstituteDhaka, Bangladesh
- Department of Population Health, University of OxfordOxford, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of SydneySydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Cardiology, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital,Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Cardiology, Sydney Adventist Hospital, WahroongaSydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRedhill, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital ZurichZurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiology, Nepean HospitalSydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra HospitalBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and Northern Ontario School of MedicineThunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Cardiology, Apollo HospitalIndore, India
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- Department of Cardiology, Eastern HealthMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash UniversityMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Westmead Applied Research Centre, University of SydneySydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Cardiology, Westmead HospitalSydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, King Fahd Armed Forces HospitalJeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Interventional Cardiology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific InstituteMilan, Italy
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Erlanger Heart and Lung InstituteChattanooga, Tennessee, US
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Hurwitz JL. When WILL we ever learn? Heart Rhythm 2022; 19:630-631. [PMID: 34999276 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jodie Linda Hurwitz
- Director of EP/Chief of Cardiology Medical City Heart and Spine Hospital, Dallas, Texas; North Texas Heart Center, Dallas, Texas
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