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• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Martha Gulati, University of Arizona; Nanette K Wenger, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2018-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley Open Access: Various Creative Commons Licenses
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/clc.22879
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Clinical Cardiology
• ISSN: 0160-9289
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 2
• Start Page: 171
• End Page: 172
• Keywords: Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; AMERICAN-HEART-ASSOCIATION; DISEASE; HEALTH; WOMEN; Cardiovascular System & Cardiology; Science & Technology
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

For much of the 20th century, cardiovascular disease (CVD) was considered a disorder of men despite its being a major cause of mortality among women. In the emerging era of evidence‐based medicine, CVD in women was treated based on studies conducted exclusively or predominantly in middle‐aged Caucasian men. Not surprisingly, advances in the recognition and management of cardiovascular illness resulted in decreased mortality for men, but not for their female peers.