Open AccessGender difference in the coronary risk factors amongst the patients with Acute Coronary Events (ACE) in Nepal
Author(s) -
B Rawat,
Abhinav Vaidya,
Jesson Gurung,
Subhash Prasad Acharya,
M Pandey,
Pragya Verma,
Pooja Poudel,
H.S. Sodhi,
D.B. Karki,
SC Jha
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nepalese heart journal/nepalese heart journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2382-5464
pISSN - 2091-2978
DOI - 10.3126/njh.v3i3.26060
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , diabetes mellitus , menopause , triglyceride , population , risk factor , coronary heart disease , cardiology , demography , cholesterol , endocrinology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
The onset of symptomatic CAD is typically about 10 years earlier in men, but CAD incidence in women increases rapidly at menopause. Women have the same modifiable risk factors as that of men. Although Diabetes appears to cloner greater risk factors as that of men as may low HDL, cholesterol and plasma triglyceride. Not much data is available to asses If coronary risk factors are different in male Vs female population in South Asia.