A disease of her own? Unique features of heart failure in women

WA Spacht, ES Lau - Climacteric, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… In this review, we discuss the unique features of HF in women including distinct … both
traditional and female-specific risk factors that contribute to the development of HF in women. Finally…

[HTML][HTML] Heart failure in women

B Bozkurt, S Khalaf - Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… When comparing men and women who have heart failure and a low left ventricular ejection
… to men, women with heart failure have these unique anatomical and physiologic features. …

Heart failure subtypes and cardiomyopathies in women

EM DeFilippis, A Beale, T Martyn, A Agarwal… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
… Additionally, peripartum cardiomyopathy is a sex specific disease with unique … of coronary
microvascular dysfunction because of its proangiogenic properties, with implications for …

Heart failure in women: a need for prospective data

EM Hsich, IL Piña - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2009 - jacc.org
… The diagnosis of HF is a clinical diagnosis based on a constellation of symptoms and signs
(28). According to the SOLVD (Studies Of Left Ventricular Dysfunction) database, women

[HTML][HTML] Imaging in women with heart failure: sex-specific characteristics and current challenges

I Leo, E Nakou, A de Marvao, J Wong… - Cardiac failure …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… this article is to review these aspects together with the challenges and the unique characteristics
of different imaging modalities used for the diagnosis and follow-up of women with HF. …

Cardiovascular disease in women: clinical perspectives

M Garcia, SL Mulvagh, CN Bairey Merz… - Circulation …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
… Sex-specific data focused on cardiovascular disease have … and unique aspects of
cardiovascular health in women and … , and treatment of cardiovascular disease. This review also …

Sex differences in cardiovascular pathophysiology: why women are overrepresented in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

AL Beale, P Meyer, TH Marwick, CSP Lam, DM Kaye - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
… We highlight the potential role of factors exclusive to or more prevalent in women such as …
this lower risk of HFrEF among women, with characteristics including concentric rather than …

Four-variable risk model in men and women with heart failure

J Chyu, GC Fonarow, CH Tseng… - … : Heart Failure, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
… in advanced heart failure. Women with heart failure have unique characteristics compared
with men, and thus, we hypothesized that creating risk models specific to women and men …

Gender differences in advanced heart failure: insights from the BEST study

JK Ghali, HJ Krause-Steinrauf, KF Adams… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - jacc.org
… baseline characteristics, response to treatment, and prognosis in patients with heart failure
(HF) and impaired left ventricular … (9), placed special emphasis on recruitment of women, and …

Diastolic and systolic heart failure are distinct phenotypes within the heart failure spectrum

BA Borlaug, MM Redfield - Circulation, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
… Inspection of the EF histogram stratified by sex further shows a greater female … and HFrEF
are highly distinct. Left ventricular chamber dilation is a defining characteristic of HFrEF. Indeed…