TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - Gulati, Martha Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Color Atlas and Synopsis of Women's Cardiovascular Health AB - Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer of women in the United States, but great strides have been made in terms of our knowledge and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women. In just the past two decades, there has been a heightened awareness of cardiovascular disease in women, in what previously had been thought of as a man's disease. As a result, in the past decade we have seen a continuous decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease in women, and most recently, it has demonstrated a more prominent decline in cardiovascular mortality for women than men. Nonetheless, more women than men die from cardiovascular disease in the United States and there are more deaths from cardiovascular causes in women than from all cancers combined. We are just at the earliest stages of understanding the cardiovascular disease process in women. Nonetheless, recent research has demonstrated important sex differences in the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of cardiovascular disease in women. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1128086683 ER -