Transitions across a lifetime: Unique cardiovascular physiology of women and relationship to cardiovascular disease risk

Juliana M. Kling, Virginia M. Miller, Sharon L. Mulvagh

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Resumen

Mortality from cardiovascular disease for women exceeds that of men. This health disparity reflects differences in economic, environmental and psychosocial factors but more importantly the lack of basic knowledge in differences of cardiovascular physiology between men and women that drives surveillance and treatment guidelines for women. Sex differences in disease frequency and presentation are due to sex chromosomes, as well as activational and organizational effects of the sex steroid hormones. This chapter addresses how two conditions unique to women, pregnancy and menopause, affect cardiovascular function and therefore, types, frequency, and expression of cardiovascular pathologies in women.

Idioma originalEnglish
Título de la publicación alojadaIntegrative Biology of Women's Health
EditorialSpringer New York
Páginas141-155
Número de páginas15
ISBN (versión digital)9781461486305
ISBN (versión impresa)1461486297, 9781461486299
DOI
EstadoPublished - dic. 1 2013
Publicado de forma externa

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© 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

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  • General Medicine

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