Gender-based differences in hemostatic responses.

Aim: Recent reports indicate increased mortality in women owing to cardiovascular diseases necessitating more gender-based studies. It is hypothesized that women have variable hemostatic responses to anticoagulant drugs.

Materials & Methods: The hemostatic responses in healthy males (n = 10) and females (n = 10) were evaluated by performing various assays in the presence of anticoagulant drugs.