Gender Differences in Appropriate Shocks and Mortality among Patients with Primary Prophylactic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

• David Conen ,

  * E-mail: david.conen@usb.ch

  Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Barbora Arendacká,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Christian Röver,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Leonard Bergau,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology and Clinical Electrophysiology Division, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Pascal Munoz,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology and Clinical Electrophysiology Division, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Sofieke Wijers,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Cardiology, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Christian Sticherling,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Markus Zabel,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology and Clinical Electrophysiology Division, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Tim Friede

  Affiliations Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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