Results of Systematic Review of Research on Diagnosis and Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease in Women. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 80

摘要

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and several partner organizations charged the University of California, San Francisco-Stanford Evidence-based Practice Center to review the evidence on five key topics related to coronary heart disease (CHD) in women: (1) accuracy of noninvasive testing for diagnosis of CHD; (2) efficacy of treatments; (3) strength of risk factors and efficacy of risk factor reduction; (4) utilization of tests and treatments in men compared to women; and (5) accuracy of biomarkers for diagnosis of myocardial infarction. These five key questions included 42 discrete subtopics. The authors used standard methods to systematically review the medical literature to address each subtopic. The evidence identified was reviewed, graded and summarized for each subtopic and further research was recommended as appropriate.