Gender Differences in Intervention Effects for High-Impact Conditions among Women Veterans Interesting research from the VA Health Services Research and Development Division which studied what gender differences exist in veterans who have depression, diabetes, and chronic pain syndromes. The VA specifically wanted to better understand sex differences in intervention effects for high-impact medical conditions […]
chronic pain syndromes, Depression, diabetes, fibromyalgia, orthopedics, osteoarthritis, sex differences, Veterans
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 diseaseDiabetes 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 diseasePrescription for Change: Hold the Statins, STAT! Reprinted from The Women’s Health Activist (2014) By Adriane Fugh-Berman and Charlea Masssion New statin guidelines released in November 2013 by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) advised preventing heart attacks by treating cardiovascular risk factors instead of high cholesterol. Seemed […]
AHA, Cardiology, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, Medications, Pharmacology