Morbidity, Mortality and Gender Differences in Patients With Pacemakers

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arrhythmias Requiring Therapy; Pacemaker, Artificial; Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; Cohort Studies

Treatments: Other: No intervention, retrospective analysis only.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03388281

EK1525/2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

Previous publications suggest gender difference in outcome parameters after pacemaker implantation. Aim of this study is to investigate gender differences in patients with pacemaker. Implanted devices, indication for implantation and pacemaker follow up data of patients will be included. Survival data including cause of death will be documented. Prevalent comorbidities and relevant laboratory data will be recorded.

Enrollment: 11,444 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients registered in the pacemaker database of the Department of Cardiology at the Medical University Vienna. Patients get registered when clinical follow up of an implanted Pacemaker is done.

Exclusion criteria

• For survival analysis: No valid match of first name AND surname AND date of birth with patients' insurance data.
• For analysis of comorbidities: Not a single documented diagnose was found in our electronic clinic-wide patients' information system.

Trial design

11,444 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with implanted pacemaker

Description:

Patients with implanted cardiac pacemaker registered in pacemaker database of the Department of Cardiology at the Medical University Vienna were included.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention, retrospective analysis only.