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Figure 2 Percentage of patients admitted to the hospital with a primary diagnosis of ventricular flutter, ventricular fibrillation, or cardiac arrest and surviving to discharge, who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) stratified by gender. Note the lower rates of utilization of the defibrillator in women (broken line) compared to men (solid line) in the early years. In 2001, the ratio of men to women receiving a defibrillator seems to have reversed, with more women receiving an ICD.
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