Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research Program, University Health Network and Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada.
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J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000 Nov;9(9):987-94
Carotid endarterectomy is the standard of care for people with severe symptomatic carotid stenosis. We analyzed population administrative data and clinical trial data to determine whether sex differences exist in the use and outcomes of this surgical procedure. We studied patients in Ontario who underwent carotid endarterectomy between 1982 and 1994 (n = 12,949) and patients with severe carotid stenosis who were enrolled in two randomized trials of endarterectomy (n = 1646). We compared the proportion of men and women who underwent carotid endarterectomy in each group, over time, and after adjustment for demographic factors. Men were twice as likely as women to receive carotid endarterectomy in the administrative analysis (65% versus 35%, p