Lifelong Gender Gap in Risk of Incident Myocardial Infarction | Zendy

Grethe Albrektsen | Zendy; Ivar Heuch | Zendy; MajaLisa Løchen | Zendy; Dag S. Thelle | Zendy; Tom Wilsgaard | Zendy; Inger Njølstad | Zendy; Kaare Harald Bønaa | Zendy

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Lifelong Gender Gap in Risk of Incident Myocardial Infarction

Author(s) -

Grethe Albrektsen,

Ivar Heuch,

MajaLisa Løchen,

Dag S. Thelle,

Tom Wilsgaard,

Inger Njølstad,

Kaare Harald Bønaa

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

jama internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14

H-Index - 342

eISSN - 2168-6114

pISSN - 2168-6106

DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5451

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , gender gap , cardiology , demographic economics , economics

It is not clear to what extent the higher incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in men vs women is explained by differences in risk factor levels because few studies have presented adjusted risk estimates for sex. Moreover, the increase in risk of CHD in postmenopausal women, possibly hormone related, may eventually eliminate the sex contrast in risk, but age-specific risk estimates are scarce.

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