Publication of Cardio Pulse article in the European Heart Journal || Lipid-lowering therapy and the risk of dementia: lessons learned from two decades of controversy ||EN

Publication of Cardio Pulse article in the European Heart Journal || Lipid-lowering therapy and the risk of dementia: lessons learned from two decades of controversy || EN

Lipid-lowering agents constitute a cornerstone of cardiovascular disease prevention. As such, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) are among the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide, and statin therapy was shown to attenuate the risk of major vascular events, including myocardial infarctions, strokes, and coronary revascularization procedures, by about one-quarter for each 1 mmol/L per year reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Despite the overwhelming evidence supporting the use of statins for cardiovascular disease prevention, conflicting findings have emerged from studies assessing the association between statin therapy and the risk of cognitive impairment, fueling a controversy that has been ongoing for more than two decades.
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Publication of review article in Cardiovascular Medicine || Impact of Sex and Gender on heart failure || EN

PUBLICATION OF REVIEW ARTICLE IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE || IMPACT OF SEX AND GENDER ON HEART FAILURE || EN

Sex and gender affect almost every aspect of #heartfailure. However, heart failure treatment is limited by a profound underrepresentation of women in clinical trials, which has resulted in a lesser understanding of disease behavior in female patients and in treatment guidelines that are predominantly based on male-derived data. Consequently, large knowledge gaps persist in sex-specific disease mechanisms, optimal drug doses for women, and sex-specific criteria for advanced heart failure therapy. Such knowledge gaps can only be closed with a systematic approach to ensure that sex-specific analyses are considered in study design, trial recruitment, statistical analysis plan, and reporting. Read more here.

New research initiative at the Saarland University promoting sex- and gender-specific research || DE

New research initiative at the Saarland University promoting sex- and gender-specific research || DE

Catherine gives a key note presentation at the kick-off network-symposium at the Saarland University to start a new initiative promoting sex- and gender-specific research.

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Pictured with the Dean Prof. Dr. Michael D. Menger, Prof. Dr. Ute Seeland, University President Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmitt, Prof. Dr. Cathérine Gebhard, Prof. Dr. Sandra Iden, Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchhoff und Minister for Science Jakob von Weizsäcker

Publication of article in Critical Care || Temporal trends in mortality and provision of intensive care in younger women and men with acute myocardial infarction or stroke || EN

Publication of article in Critical Care || Temporal trends in mortality and provision of intensive care in younger women and men with acute myocardial infarction or stroke || EN

In this study, we assessed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions of 16,954 younger women and men < 52 years over a period of 12 years. We observed that ICU admissions for acute myocardial infarction decreased more in women than in men while ICU mortality for AMI significantly increased in women, but remained unchanged in men. In stroke patients, ICU admission rates increased between 3.6 and 4.1% per year in both sexes, while ICU mortality tended to decrease only in women, but remained essentially unaltered in men. Interventions aimed at restoring tissue perfusion were more often performed in men with acute myocardial infarction, while no sex difference was noted in neurovascular interventions. Our data show that sex and gender disparities in disease management and outcomes persist in the era of modern interventional neurology and cardiology with opposite trends observed in younger stroke and acute myocardial infarction patients admitted to intensive care.

Publication of article in Nature Reviews Cardiology || Gender medicine: effects of sex and gender on cardiovascular disease manifestation and outcomes || EN

Publication of article in Nature Reviews Cardiology || Gender medicine: effects of sex and gender on cardiovascular disease manifestation and outcomes || EN

Congratulations to Bianca Gysi!

Congratulations to Bianca Gysi!

Congratulations to Bianca Gysi, MD doctoral student at the University Hospital Basel, for winning best oral presentation at the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Meeting in Basel with her talk «Sex versus gender-related characteristics: which predicts clinical outcomes of acute COVID-19?»

Congratulations to Bianca Gysi

University Hospital Inselspital Bern

Department of Cardiology
Freiburgstrasse 18
CH-3010 Bern

University Hospital Zurich

Department of Nuclear Medicine
Cardiovascular Gender Medicine
Rämistrasse 100
CH-8091 Zurich

University Hospital Basel

Department of Acute Medicine
Intensive Care Unit
Petersgraben 4
CH-4031 Basel