The Case for Sex- and Gender-Specific Medicine Two of the most respected voices in the world of sex and gender based women’s health speak out in this invited comment in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. (JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(8):1348-1349.) Their commentary spotlights the many ways in which women and men differ […]
Cardiac Disease, Cardiology, Cardiovascular disease, CVD, Gender-Specific
The Case for Sex- and Gender-Specific Medicine C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD; Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, MD There are numerous differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) between men and women. Women have a higher prevalence of coronary microvascular dysfunction, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, Tako-Tsubo syndrome (also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy), and post–myocardial infarction depression than men. Women also have a […]
cardiac, Cardiac Disease, Cardiology, Cardiovascular disease, CVD, Depression, Gender-Specific
Diabetologia article heralds that women with Diabetes are 44% more likely to have heart disease than men. Why do you think that diabetic women are 44% more likely to have cardiovascular events and heart disease than men with diabetes? These Australian, UK, and Netherlands authors propose that it might have something to do with prolonged […]
Cardiology, Cardiovascular disease, CHD, diabetes, heart disease
Diabetes as risk factor for incident coronary heart disease in women compared with men Sanne A. E. Peters, Rachel R. Huxley, Mark Woodward A previous pooled analysis suggested that women with diabetes are at substantially increased risk of fatal CHD compared with affected men. Additional findings from several larger and more contemporary studies have since […]
Cardiology, CHD, Coronary Disease, diabetes, heart disease
