Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms
and Risk Factors

Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Risk Factors and Prevention Section 10

Needed are information and education programs for patients as well health care providers on the risk factors associated with stroke, heart attack, and other cardiovascular diseases in women.

The importance of the control or prevention of such risk factors and timely referral with appropriate diagnosis and treatment should be stressed.

Programs would include education and information on health related behaviors that can improve important risk factors such as high blood cholesterol, obesity, smoking, and an inactive lifestyle.

Also needed are epidemiological studies to address the frequency and history of such diseases and the differences among women and men, as well as among ethnic and racial groups.

Studies to get a better understanding of how to prevent cardiovascular diseases in women would also be important.

Comparisons between men and women are necessary so their differences can be recognized. Women should also be studied as a unique population without making their experiences in any way inferior to those of men.

One should not assume that the symptoms, treatment and care standard for men transfer uniformly to women. Female specific research should be brought to the female public.

To further understand how women experience cardiovascular diseases, women of low socioeconomic status as well as minority groups should be studied further.

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