Key result
Sex, race, and socioeconomic disparities drive lifelong inequities in cardiovascular screening, treatment, and mortality.
Why the study?
Cardiovascular disease is well recognized as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in men, but is less well recognized as a major cause in women.
This narrative review outlines the causes, preventive screening differences, and mortality disparities of cardiovascular disease in women across their lifespan, specifically tailored for the life and disability underwriting community.
Supports tailored CVD screening across women's lifespan; leaves open optimal strategies for racial and socioeconomic disparities.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is well recognized as the major cause of morbidity and mortality in men but not so well as of morbidity and mortality in women. This study reviews the causes of female CVD from menarche through pregnancy and midlife to older ages, highlighting the differences in preventive screening and treatments for CVD. It also discusses the increased mortality seen among individuals with different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. The target audience for this study is the life and disability underwriting community, with emphasis on the mortality and morbidity associated with CVD in women.
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Rodney C Richie (2026) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Female sex and socioeconomic or racial disparities influence cardiovascular disease screening, treatment, and mortality from menarche through older age.
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