Adherence
The wear time of WCD was comparable in males with 21.1±4.3 and female group with 21.5±4.4 hours/days, the rate of compliance was revealed in 77% of male and 84.5% of female participants, there were no significant differences in this regard. One observational study has presented a similar adherence rate with daily use of 23 h per day in 6043 patients [19]. The wear time in the VEST trial was 18 h, also less than the wear time in our patients [8]. Most cases of death occurred in patients who were not using the WCD [8]. In this regard, one important and possible cause for death was non-compliance in wearing the WCD. However, suffering from cardiac arrest during the index MI, and an increase of creatinine were independent predictors for a high WCD wearing time [20]. In addition, the indication for WCD in one large cohort was equivalent in accordance with our study concerning the different number of cases including ICM or DCM, genetic or congenital disease, ICD explanations, or myocarditis [19]. In our quartile age analysis, adherence was more observed in older as compared to adult patients. In this regard, the WEARIT-France study showed that younger age was associated with lower compliance [21].