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Coronary heart disease in women remains an understudied, underdiagnosed, and undertreated problem.
Highlights the ongoing disparities in the study, diagnosis, and treatment of coronary heart disease in women.
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Heightened clinical suspicion for CHD in women is warranted; leaves open dedicated trials to define sex-specific strategies.
A mong the accolades most valued by a clinical cardiolo- gist is to be selected to deliver the annual James B. Herrick Lecture.This lecture honors the legacy of James Herrick as an icon for the cardiac clinician/scientist.I am enormously grateful to the Council on Clinical Cardiology for this singular recognition.My choice to address "Women and Coronary Heart Disease: A Century after Herrick" will show that this problem remains understudied, underdiagnosed, and undertreated.
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Nanette K. Wenger (2012) conducted an editorial in Coronary Heart Disease. Coronary heart disease in women remains an understudied, underdiagnosed, and undertreated problem.
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