Studies of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Women — Lessons for Everyone

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Abstract
The news that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women has been so prominently publicized recently that researchers are occasionally asked to explain this apparent epidemic. In fact, cardiovascular disease has been the leading cause of death among women for many decades but is only now being carefully described and studied. Sex bias may account for some of the emphasis that has been placed on heart disease in men, but it seems understandable that the initial surge of interest in coronary artery disease in the 1950s centered on its emergence as a major cause of death and . . .