Episode 9, Go Red for Women: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival trends featuring Robin Smits

In this episode of Aha! with JAHA, Dr. Laxmi Mehta interviews Robin Smits, a researcher at the Departments of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, and Public and Occupational Health at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Ms Smits discusses her article “Sex differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival trends,” finding that the survival gap between men and women after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has actually widened further over time, and the necessity of developing strategies that improve the survival rate specifically in women.

Read Ms. Smits’ article in JAHA’s 2024 Go Red for Women Spotlight

The full Go Red for Women Spotlight is available here