Care guide for Coronary Artery Disease in Women. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
Cardiovascular diseases, including coronary artery disease (CAD), are the leading cause of death among women and men. Mortality among women is higher than in men. Women more often report atypical anginal symptoms. Non-invasive diagnostic testing of CAD is less sensitive and characteristic in women...
Doctors are less likely to recommend that women get diagnostic tests for coronary artery disease. When women go to the hospital with heart-related symptoms, doctors tend to look into other causes first and take longer to refer them for an electrocardiogram (EKG) -- the test that checks for C...
Coronary artery disease is the most common form of heart disease in the U.S. If you've been diagnosed with the condition, your doctor will help you find the treatment plan that's right for you. Coronary artery disease can lead to serious complications, including heart attack and arrhythmia,...
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number 1 cause of morbidity and mortality in women in the US: Cardiovascular disease (including CAD) kills nearly 500,000 American women (Fig. 1) each year,[1]a figure exceeding total deaths among women for all other diseases combined. These numbers are...
More than 240 000 women in the United States die of coronary heart disease annually. Identifying women's symptoms that predict a coronary heart disease event such as myocardial infarction (MI) could decrease mortality. For this longitudinal observational study, we recruited 1097 women, who were eit...
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Background Young women with coronary artery disease (CAD), a group with high psychosocial burden, were previously shown to have higher levels of interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) compared with men of similar age. We sought to examine IL‐6 response to acute s
Because CAD is not a sudden-onset condition, but rather takes years to develop, there are several ways you can reduce your risk of developing the disease. Most revolve around what you eat and how much you move. “Coronary artery disease can be prevented with proper recognition and treatment ...
Frequent nut consumption and risk of coronary heart disease in women: prospective cohort study. Br Med J 1998;317(7169):1341–1345. CAS Google Scholar Erkkila AT, Lichtenstein AH, Mozaffarian D, Herrington DM. Fish intake is associated with a reduced progression of coronary artery ...