The Way to a Woman's Heart: Assessing, Personalizing, and Reclassifying Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Female Patients

Tex Heart Inst J. 2020 Apr 1;47(2):125-127. doi: 10.14503/THIJ-19-7074.

Authors

Jing Liu¹, Anum Saeed², Aliza Hussain¹, Salim S Virani^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
² Heart and Vascular Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.
³ Section of Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
⁴ Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center for Innovations, Houston, Texas 77030.

No abstract available

Keywords: Atherosclerosis; cardiovascular diseases; female; hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitors/therapeutic use; risk assessment; risk factors; sex factors; vascular calcification.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Atherosclerosis / classification*
Atherosclerosis / epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases / classification*
Cardiovascular Diseases / epidemiology
Female
Global Health
Humans
Incidence
Women's Health*