Risk of thrombosis, hemorrhage and leukemic transformation in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms: A nationwide longitudinal cohort study
Behnood Bikdeli a) b) c), Shannon M. Bates d)
a) Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
b) Thrombosis Research Group, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
c) YNHH/ Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), New Haven, CT, USA
d) Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Biological sex, as well as socio-cultural issues related to gender may influence how pulmonary embolism (PE) presents, as well as patient perception about symptoms, and choices about the timing and type of acute and longer-term care. In addition, disparities in health systems in offering timely and equitable care may enhance sex and gender differences in clinical outcomes [1–3].