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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability in American women. Since 1984, more women have died of cardiovascular disease than men. More than 200,000 of these deaths are due to coronary heart disease.1 In two-thirds of these women, sudden death was the presenting symptom and studies2 show that 90% of them had at least one of the modifiable risk factors (e.g…
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Introduction
Strictly speaking, there are no arrhythmias that are specific to women. However, as with most diseases, the diagnosis of arrhythmias presents unique challenges when applied to women. Women have distinct symptoms, different etiologies and incidences of arrhythmias, and even differing outcomes compared with men.
This article will discuss both the benign and more malignant arrhythmias…
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Introduction
Strictly speaking, there are no arrhythmias that are specific to women. However, as with most diseases, the diagnosis of arrhythmias presents unique challenges when applied to women. Women have distinct symptoms, different etiologies and incidences of arrhythmias, and even differing outcomes compared with men.
This article will discuss both the benign and more malignant arrhythmias…
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ESC-HFA 2023 – Prof John Cleland (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK) discusses the findings from a study that looked at the diagnostic of heart failure in a cohort of 1.1 million people using the NHS EMR database.
Finding presented at Heart Failure 2023, showed that more people treated with LD than receive diagnosis of heart failure, this disparity was greater in women compared to men.
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PCI in Women
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Cardiovascular disease is both the dominant health problem and the major cause of mortality for adult women in the US, claiming the lives of nearly 500,000 women annually. The staggering impact is that a US woman dies from cardiovascular disease almost every minute.
Although cardiovascular disease has traditionally been perceived to be a problem predominantly of men, since 1984, more US women…
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AHA 2023 — Dr Fathima Aaysha Cader (Kettering General Hospital, UK) and Dr Shrilla Banerjee (Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, UK), winners of Women as One’s Escalator Award Mentor-Match Award, joined us to discuss their project aiming to support mentors and mentees worldwide.In this short summary, Dr Cader and Dr Banerjee share the results of a mentorship survey that included 1210…
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AHA 2023 — Dr Fathima Aaysha Cader (Kettering General Hospital, UK) and Dr. Shrilla Banerjee (Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, UK), winners of Women as One’s Escalator Award Mentor-Match Award, joined us to discuss their experience with developing a tool aimed to make the mentorship experience effective both for the mentee and mentor.In this short video they also talk about the work on Women…
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3 years ago
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease
CVD is the leading cause of death in Europe and the United States. CVD mortality is on the decline in many countries, and in several European countries, cancer has now surpassed CVD as the leading cause of death.1 However, CVD remains the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States and results in more female deaths than cancer, lung…
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The prevalence of heart disease in pregnant women is estimated to be between 0.1 and 4%; although the prevalence has not changed for decades, the relative contribution of different types of heart disease varies according to the study population and the study period. Nowadays, in developed countries the largest group of females with an underlying heart disease consists of women with congenital…
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