Cardiovascular disease, primarily coronary heart disease (CHD), remains the most frequent cause of death in Western industrialized nations: nearly one in every two deaths are currently attributable to CHD. Since the 1980s, gender-specific trends have become apparent in these statistics: whereas coronary–vascular mortality has appreciably decreased among men, women have conversely experienced a ...

Values for several coronary risk factors, including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, serum cholesterol, triglycerides, blood glucose, uric acid, hemoglobin, weight, vitral capacity and cigarette smoking have been found to be similar among spouses in the Framingham Study. However, longitudinal analyses show that this spouse concordance does not increase over a twelve-year observation peri...

To the Editor: Dr Canto and colleagues found that hospital mortality increased as the number of cardiovascular risk factors declined. This inverse relationship is perplexing and the potential explanations discussed by the authors appear not completely satisfactory. The authors just considered the number of risk factors, whereas the severity of each factor was not evaluated. Blood pressure, plas...

introduction: obesity is common in patients with cardiovascular disease (cvd) and the vast majority of patients entering into cardiac rehabilitation program (crp) are obese. regarding the gender differences, the risk of developing coronary heart disease (chd) is recognized to be different between obese men and women. so, the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of crp in functional c...