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Sex Disparities in Cardiogenic Shock: Risk Factors, Treatment Intensity, and Mortality in a Single Latin American Country

Global Heart
Volume 20 (2025): Issue 1
By: Alexandra Arias-Mendoza,  Héctor González-Pacheco,  Amada Álvarez-Sangabriel,  Diego Araiza-Garaygordobil,  Pamela Ramírez-Rangel,  Rodrigo Gopar-Nieto,  Maria del Carmen López-Rodríguez,  Daniel Sierra-Lara-Martínez,  Salvador Mendoza-García,  Braiana Ángeles Díaz-Herrera,  María Nila Papaqui-Quitl,  Jaime Hernández-Montfort and  Jorge A. Ortega-Hernández  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1469 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 6, 2025
Accepted on: Aug 29, 2025
Published on: Sep 9, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Cardiogenic shock,
sex disparities,
acute myocardial infarction,
treatment intensity

© 2025 Alexandra Arias-Mendoza, Héctor González-Pacheco, Amada Álvarez-Sangabriel, Diego Araiza-Garaygordobil, Pamela Ramírez-Rangel, Rodrigo Gopar-Nieto, Maria del Carmen López-Rodríguez, Daniel Sierra-Lara-Martínez, Salvador Mendoza-García, Braiana Ángeles Díaz-Herrera, María Nila Papaqui-Quitl, Jaime Hernández-Montfort, Jorge A. Ortega-Hernández, published by Ubiquity Press
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