title: Gender and age-specific focus needed for cardiovascular outcome measures to improve life-time prevention in high risk women.
abstract: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have a large variety of clinical manifestations with multiple medical professionals involved. The focus of clinical endpoint trials has often been restricted to limited vascular territories, ignoring many other common manifestations of CVD. In addition, the lack of sex and gender- awareness among healthcare professionals has contributed to the underestimation of CVD risk in especially younger women. We plead for a more multidisciplinary and life-course approach to CVD risk assessment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: angela.maas@radboudumc.nl.
authors.forename: Angela H E M
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Maas
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leiner
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D023381:Endpoint Determination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular risk; Gender; Women