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Men's greater susceptibility to coronary heart disease, particularly in Eastern Europe, may be explained by higher stress-related psychosocial and behavioral risk factors compared to women.
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Why are men more susceptible to heart disease than women? Traditional risk factors cannot explain the gender gap in coronary heart disease (CHD) or the rapid increase in CHD mortality among middle-aged men in many of the newly independent states of Eastern Europe. However, Eastern European men score higher on stress-related psychosocial factors than men living in the West. Comparisons between the sexes also reveal differences in psychosocial and behavioral coronary risk factors favoring women, indicating that women's coping with stressful events may be more cardioprotective. Men's greater susceptibility to heart disease, particularly observable in many Eastern European countries, poses unique threats to public health and points to solutions in the behavioral and social arena.
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Weidner et al. (2003) conducted a review in Coronary heart disease. Male sex and stress-related psychosocial factors vs. Female sex was evaluated on Coronary heart disease mortality. Men's greater susceptibility to coronary heart disease, particularly in Eastern Europe, may be explained by higher stress-related psychosocial and behavioral risk factors compared to women.
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