RT Book, Section
A1 Gulati, Martha
SR Print(0)
ID 1128086683
T1 Preface
T2 Color Atlas and Synopsis of Women's Cardiovascular Health
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071786201
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1128086683
RD 2024/04/19
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.