Strategies and methods to study sex differences in cardiovascular structure and function: a guide for basic scientists Virginia M Miller, Jay R Kaplan, Nicholas J Schork, Pamela Ouyang, Sarah L Berga, Nanette K Wenger, Leslee J Shaw, R Clinton Webb, Monica Mallampalli, Meir Steiner, Doris A Taylor, C Noel Bairey Merz, and Jane F Reckelhoff […]
Cardiology, CVD, heart, Pharmacology
Women and older men with osteoarthritis (OA) are more likely to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure than those without arthritis. The risk was greatest for patients needing joint replacement surgery, as reported in Arthritis Care & Research. Although rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and other autoimmune forms of arthritis — which are more prevalent in women […]
arthritis, Autoimmune, Cardiology, CVD, inflammatory diseasesGender differences and disparities in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality: epidemiological aspects Barrett-Connor E. University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA [email protected]. AbstractThis overview is primarily concerned with large recent prospective cohort studies of adult populations, not patients, because the latter studies are confounded by differences in medical and surgical […]
Cardiology, CVDResponding to the New York Times article questioning the new AHA guidelines for cholesterol lowering should women take statins — even those without evidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) — when a baseline risk justifies use, according to co-author, Noel Bairey Merz, MD, professor of medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA during […]
Cardiology, CVD, Pharmacology, statin therapy