Key result
Women face high CVD mortality despite a persistent lack of sex-specific cardiovascular research.
Why the study?
Cardiovascular disease causes half of all deaths among women aged 50 and older in Canada and the United States, yet women have less heart disease than men and study of heart disease in women is relatively recent.
Urges greater investment in sex-specific CVD research for women; leaves open whether current guidelines require sex-tailored revisions.
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for half of all deaths among women aged 50 and older in Canada and the United States. Nevertheless, women have less heart disease than men. Perhaps this is the main reason why the study of heart disease in women is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the last few
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E L Barrett-Connor (2007) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease in women suffers from a significant lack of sex-specific original research, despite being responsible for half of all deaths among women aged 50 and older in North America.
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