Stroke is a major public health problem. The female population carries a higher stroke
burden than the male population, both because females have a longer life expectancy and …

Background and Purpose—Women have poorer outcomes from stroke than men. Women
also have risk factors that are unique, including pregnancy and hormone therapy. Hormone …

Aging women sustain a large burden for stroke, an observation frequently overlooked in our
popularized view of cancer as the killer of women. Accordingly, potential benefits and …

Stroke is a leading cause of death and the most common cause of long-term disability in the
USA. Women have a lower incidence of stroke compared with men throughout most of the …

Women are protected from stroke relative to men until the years of menopause. Because
stroke is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, modeling sex …

Recent evidence suggests that reproductive steroids are important players in shaping stroke
outcome and cerebrovascular pathophysiologic features. Although women are at lower risk …

Epidemiological studies point to a beneficial influence of the female reproductive hormones
on stroke risk in that women have a lower incidence of stroke prior to the menopause …

Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Females
are protected against stroke before the onset of menopause. Menopause results in …

Males and females possess distinct biological differences that manifest in diverse risk
profiles for acute and chronic diseases. A well-documented example of this is ischemic …

Ischemic stroke is emerging as a major health problem for elderly women. Women have
lower stroke incidence than men until an advanced age, when the epidemiology of ischemic …