Female gender, myocardial remodeling and cardiac failure: Are women protected from increased myocardiocyte apoptosis?

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 498-504

  Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe G L ^a,d   Baldi, Alfonso ^b   Biasucci, Luigi M ^a   Abbate, Antonio ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cardiac remodeling; Heart failure; Sex; Women

Indexed keywords

AGED; APOPTOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 16544376813     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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