Journal article
Cardiovascular disease and the female disadvantage
- Abstract:
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Age-standardised rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are substantially higher in men than women. This explains why CVD has traditionally been seen as a “man’s problem”. However, CVD is the leading cause of death in women, worldwide, and is one of the most common causes of disability-adjusted life-years lost. In general, this is under-recognised and, in several ways, women are disadvantaged in terms of CVD. Both in primary and secondary prevention, there is evidence that women are un...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 1165-1165
- Publication date:
- 2019-04-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1660-4601
- ISSN:
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1661-7827
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:987530
- UUID:
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uuid:ab0e9845-e83c-459d-8a46-d1ec2d241e29
- Local pid:
- pubs:987530
- Source identifiers:
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987530
- Deposit date:
- 2019-04-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Woodward, M
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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