Viewpoint: Gender differences in heart disease

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Schenck Gustafsson, Karin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; ESTRADIOL; LIDOCAINE; LIPID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANGINA PECTORIS; ATHEROMATOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; STROKE; SYNDROME X; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33750510495     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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