Highlights a concerning trend of increasing MI prevalence and narrowing risk gap for hard cardiovascular events in midlife women, underscoring the need for improved vascular risk factor control.
Alerts clinicians to rising MI burden in midlife women; leaves open whether targeted interventions improve outcomes.
Over the past 2 decades, MI prevalence has increased among midlife women, while declining among similarly aged men. Also, although the risk of future hard cardiovascular events remains higher in midlife men compared with midlife women, the gap has narrowed in recent years. Greater emphasis on vascular risk factor control in midlife women might help mitigate this worrisome trend.
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