Emerging links between intimate partner violence and women’s cardiovascular disease risk
Among the common but lesser-known consequences of intimate partner violence is a heightened risk for cardiovascular disease.
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Coronary artery calcium scores found to predict risk of heart attack and death in both men and women
For the Intermountain Health study, researchers reviewed the electronic health records of 19,495 women and 20,523 men who had undergone PET/CT scans because their physicians suspected they had a risk ...
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How breast cancer screening can identify CVD risk
Breast arterial calcifications are benign calcium buildups that in mammograms look like white parallel lines. Measuring these calcifications may improve cardiovascular risk in women, according to a ...
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Women are at a higher risk of dying from heart disease − in part because doctors don’t take major sex and gender differences into account
In addition to sex differences, implicit gender biases among providers and gendered social norms among patients lead clinicians to underestimate the risk of cardiac events in women compared with men.