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
Prescription 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, PharmacologyAre Women Appropriately and Adequately Included in Clinical Trials of Moxifloxacin? Elisa Chilet-Rosell, PhD,1 Ma Teresa Ruiz-Cantero,1,2 and Ma Angeles Pardo, MSc11Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.2CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain. [email protected] ABSTRACT Purpose: To determine the inclusion of women and the sex-stratification of results in moxifloxacin Clinical Trials (CTs), […]
Clinical trials, medication, Pharmacology, prescription drugsConsiderations for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the elderly Sex & Gender Differences: Highlighted In advanced COPD, insufficient drug efficacy was found in 19% of the population- predominantly female (80%), of shorter stature with lower lung capacity-was unable to generate the required peak inspiratory flow through the simulated resistance of a DPI.
Pharmacology, pulmonary