Open AccessSex-Specific Trends in Midlife Coronary Heart Disease Risk and Prevalence
Author(s) -
Amytis Towfighi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.318
Subject(s) - national health and nutrition examination survey , medicine , diabetes mellitus , framingham heart study , demography , myocardial infarction , framingham risk score , epidemiology , cross sectional study , coronary heart disease , gerontology , disease , population , environmental health , endocrinology , pathology , sociology
While recent data indicate that stroke prevalence in women at midlife is double that of similarly aged men in the United States, little is known about current sex-specific trends in symptomatic cardiovascular disease. This study aimed to determine sex-specific midlife prevalence of myocardial infarction (MI) and risk of future coronary heart disease.
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