A comprehensive view of sex-specific issues related to cardiovascular disease

Pilote, L.; Dasgupta, K.; Guru, Veena; Humphries, K.; McGrath, J.; Norris, C.; Rabi, D.; Tremblay, J.; Alamian, A.; Barnett, T.; Cox, J.; Ghali, W.; Grace, S.; Hamet, P.; Ho, T.; Kirkland, S.; Lambert, M.; Libersan, D.; O'Loughlin, J.; Paradis, G.; Petrovich, Milan; Tagalakis, V.

doi:10.1503/cmaj.051455

Public

A comprehensive view of sex-specific issues related to cardiovascular disease

Shared by NobleBlocks on Mar 13, 2007 • 12:00 AM UTC

Authors:

L. Pilote

K. Dasgupta

Veena Guru

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in women. In fact, CVD is responsible for a third of all deaths of women worldwide and half of all deaths of women over 50 years of age in developing countries. The prevalence of CVD risk factor precursors is increasing in children. Retr...

Subject

Medicine

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!