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-SpecificThe 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
The Society for Women’s Health Research Applauds New Guidelines on Preventing Stroke in Women Nation’s Leader in Women’s Health Encourages Greater Focus on the Different Risk Factors for Each Gender Washington, D.C. – The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is the leading voice on research into the biological differences between women and men. SWHR […]
AHA, Cardiology, CVD, heart, stroke, SWHR10 Q Report: Advancing Women’s Heart Health through Improved Research, Diagnosis and Treatment Conducting appropriate sex differences research and analysis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been limited by insufficient recruitment of women. Improved participation of women would improve the clinical understanding of sex differences and result in more appropriate prevention and early detection, accurate diagnosis […]
Cardiology, CVD, heart, SWHR