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However, the inter-individual response to exercise training is highly variable and influenced by both training and patient characteristics. Notably, men and women display a different training response, even when accounting for age, height and lean muscle mass. Most studies investigating exercise effects on various physiological outcomes focus on male patients. Because women are understudied, the scientific evidence for tailored exercise prescription in women is still limited.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This narrative review summarises: (a) the underlying physiological determinants of the response to exercise training in women with cardiovascular disease, in which women rely more on fat than on carbohydrate oxidation during exercise, have lower aerobic capacities and smaller increases in cardiac function during exercise; (b) the benefits and barriers of exercise in women, in whom improving cardiometabolic risk and quality of life is weighed against socioeconomic and psychological needs; and (c) the relevance of different clinical endpoints in exercise trials such as maximum oxygen uptake, morbidity, mortality, training characteristics, quality of life and metabolic or vascular endpoints.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Finally, we provide a perspective on how to improve referral, enrolment and adherence to exercise training in women, with structured approaches to inform the referring physician as well as the patient, and offering more flexible, gender-tailored or tele\/smartphone-based programmes while addressing the socioeconomic and psychological needs of the patients. 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