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Population-Based Sex Differences in Disease Incidence and Prevalence

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Coronary Disease in Women

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Abstract

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for women in the United States, causing more female deaths than all types of cancers combined (1,2). Although age-adjusted mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) declined in the last four decades in the United States, evidence shows that the decline may have been of a lesser magnitude in women (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs) (3). The decline in CHD mortality could be the result of decreasing disease incidence, decreasing case fatality rates, or a combination of the two. This underscores the need to analyze disease trends separately in men and women in order to understand the sex-specific patterns of disease occurrence and outcome.

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  1. Outcomes Research, American Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Leslee J. Shaw PhD

  2. Division of Cardiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Rita F. Redberg MD, FACC

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Witt, B.J., Roger, V.L. (2004). Population-Based Sex Differences in Disease Incidence and Prevalence. In: Shaw, L.J., Redberg, R.F. (eds) Coronary Disease in Women. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-645-4_3

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