Gender determinants of cardiovascular risk factors and diseases

G Mercuro, M Deidda, A Piras… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… Spontaneous coronary artery dissection at the origin of acute myocardial ischemia and
sudden death, and heart rupture as a complication of MI are peculiar to the female gender [62,63] …

Female gender as a risk factor for drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias: evaluation of clinical and experimental evidence

SN Ebert, X Liu, RL Woosley - Journal of women's health, 1998 - liebertpub.com
… sotalol found female gender as the major risk factor associated with increased risk of arrhyth-
… tion, and in addition to gender, there are risk factors that are common to all of the inciting …

Female gender as a risk factor for torsades de pointes associated with cardiovascular drugs

RR Makkar, BS Fromm, RT Steinman, MD Meissner… - Jama, 1993 - jamanetwork.com
Objective. —To test the hypothesis that female prevalence is greater than expected among
reported cases of torsades de pointes associated with cardiovascular drugs that prolong …

Female gender is a risk factor for stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation patients

DA Lane, GYH Lip - Thrombosis and haemostasis, 2009 - thieme-connect.com
… However, the meta-analysis of these trials did not examine gender differences in … (26)
examined whether female gender was a risk factor for stroke among 780 (35.3% women) AF …

Fournier's gangrene: is the female gender a risk factor?

R Czymek, P Frank, S Limmer, A Schmidt… - … archives of surgery, 2010 - Springer
female gender to be a risk factor in terms of mortality. A look at our results and the study by
Yanar et al. suggests, however, that the female gender must today be regarded as a risk factor

[HTML][HTML] Male gender preference, female gender disadvantage as risk factors for psychological morbidity in Pakistani women of childbearing age-a life course …

F Qadir, MM Khan, G Medhin, M Prince - BMC public health, 2011 - Springer
… age, gender disadvantage is an independent risk factor for psychological morbidity …
biological factors must be implicated. In this paper we focus upon the role of gender disadvantage, …

Gender differences in risk factors for coronary heart disease

YY Tan, GCM Gast, YT van der Schouw - Maturitas, 2010 - Elsevier
… Boolean searches of MEDLINE/Pub Med ® were performed by combining the MeSH terms
cardiovascular disease with sex OR gender OR women OR female and each of the following: …

The gender gap in risk factor control: effects of age and education on the control of cardiovascular risk factors in male and female coronary patients. The …

D De Smedt, D De Bacquer, J De Sutter… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was to investigate gender related differences in the management and
risk factor control of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), taking into account their age …

Female gender as a risk factor for transient post-thyroidectomy hypocalcemia

NB Sands, RJ Payne, V Côté, MP Hier… - … --Head and Neck …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
… a trivial association between gender and outcome cannot … female gender is an independent
risk factor for postoperative hypocalcemia, the specific mechanisms underlying this gender

Female gender is a risk factor for torsades de pointes in an in vitro animal model

XK Liu, W Wang, SN Ebert, MR Franz… - Journal of …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
… indicate that female gender is associated with a higher risk of … myocytes to examine the
gender difference in TdP incidence and gain … Results demonstrated that (a) no significant gender