Initial results and long-term clinical and angiographic outcome of coronary stenting in women

To assess whether gender influences the results of coronary stenting, 158 c onsecutive women undergoing coronary stenting were compared with 823 consec utive men. Women had more adverse baseline characteristics, a higher hospit al mortality, and were independently associated with procedural failure/com plications (relative risk 2.4, 95% confidence interval 1.2 to 4.8); however , the long-term event-free survival and the restenosis rate were not influe nced by gender.