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Each year approximately 2.5 million U.S. women are hospitalized for cardiovascular illness, which also claims the lives of 500,000 women annually; half these deaths are due to coronary heart disease¹. Despite the magnitude of this problem and its adverse repercussions on the national public health, we have insufficient information about preventive strategies, diagnostic testing, responses to medical and surgical therapies, and other aspects of cardiovascular illness in women. This lack of information is compounded by the less frequent participation of women in research studies; the difference has been due in part to the exclusion of women of childbearing age . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Recommendations for Clinical Practice

Coronary Heart Disease in Women: Prevention, Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis

Hormone-Replacement Therapy, Oral Contraceptive Agents, and Coronary Heart Disease

Behavioral and Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnanc

            The Recognition and Management of Hypertensive Disease

            Venous Thromboembolic Disorders

            Cardiac Disease

            Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Noncoronary Cardiovascular Disease in Women

            Stroke

            Valvular Heart Disease

            Peripheral Vascular Disease

            Congestive Heart Failure

            Sudden Death from Cardiac Causes

Recommendations for Research

General Considerations

Source Information

From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (N.K.W.); the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland (L.S.); and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md. (B.P.). Based on the proceedings of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute conference "Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Optimal Disease Recognition and Management," Bethesda, Md., January 22-24, 1992. The participants in the conference are listed in the Appendix.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Wenger at Emory University School of Medicine, 69 Butler St., SE, Atlanta, GA 30303.

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