Similarly, there was a trend toward higher rehospitalizations related to cardiac causes in women that did not reach statistical significance (9.8%; 95% CI, 7.1-13.3), of which cardiac causes occurred in 7.2% of women [95% CI, 4.9-10.4] vs 6.3% in men [95% CI, 4.4-8.9]).
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There was no direct association between the type or size of valve selected and the rate of complications between men and women that offers a plausible explanation although there was a clear trend for women to have smaller annuli.