title: What do the 2011 American Heart Association guidelines tell us about prevention of cardiovascular disease in women?
abstract: The 2011 Update of the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline for Women is designed to help women and their physicians understand cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risks and undertake practical steps that are most effective in preventing heart disease and stroke. Defining a woman's risk status and improving her adherence to preventive lifestyle behaviors and medications is the best strategy to lower the burden of CVD in women.
authors: Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Heart aned Vascular Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. nwenger@emory.edu
authors: Nanette K
authors: NK
authors: Wenger
mesh_terms: D000572:American Heart Association; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D016387:Women's Health