Risk factors for cardiovascular disease among women
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Lipidology
- Vol. 7 (4) , 203-208
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00041433-199608000-00006
Abstract
The studies of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among women have changed over the past few years because of: (1) the further development and evaluation of noninvasive methods of measuring subclinical atherosclerosis, (2) the availability of potent drugs that substantially lower LDLcholesterol levels, (3) improvement in the methods of measuring factors related to clotting and fibrinolysis and inflammation, (4) better methods of quantifying obesity, fatness and body fat distribution, (5) increasing interest in the interrelationship between endogenous sex-steroid hormone metabolism, risk factors and disease, (6) the relationship of new metabolic risk factors and cardiovasculsr disease and (7) the use of molecular genetics to identify specific genotypes of risk factors.Keywords
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