...Michael H. Chiu; Bobak Heydari; Zarah Batulan; Nadia Maarouf; Vinita Subramanya; Karin Schenck-Gustafsson; Edward R. O’Brien The recognition of sex differences in cardiovascular disease, particularly the manifestations of coronary artery disease (CAD) in post-menopausal women, has introduced new...

...Anjali Chauhan; Hope Moser; Louise D. McCullough Stroke remains a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide. More women than men have strokes each year, in part because women live longer. Women have poorer functional outcomes, are more likely to need nursing home care and have higher...

...Stacy Westerman; Nanette K. Wenger For many years the significance of heart disease in women was vastly underappreciated, and women were significantly underrepresented in cardiovascular clinical research. We now know that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for women. Women and men...

... and structures approx. 2 years postpartum. Women were originally enrolled in the HAPO (Hyperglycaemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome) study from which they were classified by their glycaemic distribution during pregnancy as controls (in the lower half of the distribution), UQ (upper quartile; in the UQ...

...William H. COOKE; David A. LUDWIG; Paul S. HOGG; Dwain L. ECKBERG; Victor A. CONVERTINO The menstrual cycle provokes several physiological changes that could influence autonomic regulatory mechanisms. We studied the carotid-cardiac baroreflex in ten healthy young women on four occasions over...

...Annika DOTEVALL; Johannes HULTHE; Annika ROSENGREN; Olov WIKLUND; Lars WILHELMSEN Women with diabetes mellitus are at high risk of myocardial infarction (MI), and it is well recognized that smoking, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia and the diabetic state itself do not fully explain this increased risk...

...C. Rångemark; Å. Wennmalm 1. Cigarette smoking is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in both men and women. Experimental and epidemiological studies have demonstrated that cigarette smoking is associated with several indices of increased platelet activation and platelet/vessel...

...Kay-Tee Khaw; Elizabeth Barrett-Connor 1. The clinical association between glucose intolerance, hyperinsulinaemia, insulin resistance and hyperandrogenism is well recognized in premenopausal women with polycystic ovarian disease. We examined the hypothesis that fasting plasma glucose levels might...