Gender-specific care of the patient with diabetes: review and recommendations Marianne J. Legato, Andrea Gelzer, Robin Goland, Susana A. Ebner, Sabitha Rajan, Victor Villagra, Mark Kosowski, Writing Group for the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine Abstract BACKGROUND: Men and women differ in their experience of diabetes mellitus (DM). For optimal prevention and treatment of the disease, [...]
Read More Cardiology, Depression, diabetes, Endocrinology, hyperlipidemia, MIIn This Case: Evaluating Unusual Fatigue and Chest Pressure By Janice Werbinski, MD, Clinical Overview Despite general acknowledgement of the sex specific differences in symptom presentation during MI, women do not receive equal, or sufficient response to cardiovascular symptoms because women arrive with complaints differing from the male norm. History: JL is a 63 [...]
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Statins reduced adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in both men and women, based on a meta-analysis reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Statin therapy reduced major adverse cardiovascular events by19% in women and by 23% in men and all-cause mortality was lowered by 10% and 16%, respectively, according to lead [...]
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