Table 3.

Recruitment of females by exercise type, WHO region and clinical outcome

	Number of studies	Number of studies excluding females	Percentage of studies excluding females (%)	Mean percentage females recruited per study (%)
Exercise type
Running	109	64	58.7	14.5
Triathlon	25	12	48.0	14.0
Cross-country skiing	24	14	58.3	12.6
Mixed	63	25	39.7	22.3
Other	29	12	41.4	31.5
WHO region
African region	2	2	100.0	0.0
Region of the Americas	67	26	38.8	27.6
Eastern Mediterranean region	0	0	NA	NA
European region	165	89	54.5	15.3
Southeast Asia region	0	0	NA	NA
Western Pacific region	16	10	62.5	11.5
Clinical outcome
Arrhythmia	31	12	38.7	18.7
Cardiomyopathy	11	5	45.5	12.8
Ischaemic heart disease	10	8	80.0	6.2
Other	26	10	38.5	21.7