Gender Differences of Cardiovascular Disease
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Although gender is increasingly perceived as a key determinant in health and illness, systematic gender studies in medicine are still lacking. For a long time, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been seen as a "male" disease, due to men's higher absolute risk compared with women, but the relative risk in women of CVD morbidity and mortality is actually higher. Current knowledge points to importan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000223064.62762.0b