There are no data on sex-specific differences in long-term benefit of SES use compared with bare-metal stent (BMS) use among patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary interventions.
We performed a post hoc analysis of the MULTISTRATEGY trial. Hazard ratios (HRs) of events with 95 % CI for sex and stent type were computed using Cox proportional regression with adjustment for confounders.
A total of 744 patients, 64 years old (55-73 years old), 179 (24.1 % ) women, were enrolled. After a follow-up of 1,080 days, SES use was associated with a significant reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events, that is, the composite of all-cause death, reinfarction, or clinically driven target vessel revascularization (TVR) (13.9 % vs 23.6 % , adjusted HR 0.62, 95 % CI 0.41-0.94, P = .026) and of TVR (6.1 % vs 15.1 % , adjusted HR 0.35, 95 % CI 0.19-0.63, P < .001) in men. Conversely, SES use was not associated to a better outcome among women (major adverse cardiovascular events 21.9 % in SES vs 18.2 % in the BMS group, adjusted HR 1.27, 95 % CI 0.53-3.02, P = .59; TVR 6.6 % vs 9.1 % , adjusted HR 0.62, 95 % CI 0.17-2.21, P = .46).
In this analysis, the clinical benefit of SES use, over BMS, at 3-year follow-up was restricted to men and was not observed among women.