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Daniel J Taylor1, Louise Aubiniere-Robb1, Rebecca Gosling1,2,3
1Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Background:
Increased coronary microvascular resistance (CMVR) is associated with coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD). Although CMD is more common in women, sex-specific differences in CMVR have not been demonstrated previously.
Aim:
To compare CMVR between men and women being investigated for chest pain.
Methods And Results:
We used a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of human coronary physiology to calculate absolute CMVR based on invasive coronary angiographic images and pressures in 203 coronary arteries from 144 individual patients. CMVR was significantly higher in women than men (860 [650-1,205] vs. 680 [520-865] WU, Z = -2.24, p = 0.025). None of the other major subgroup comparisons yielded any differences in CMVR.
Conclusion:
CMVR was significantly higher in women compared with men. These sex-specific differences may help to explain the increased prevalence of CMD in women.
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