Coronary Artery Disease in Women: Getting to Know Gender Related Disparities

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and ischemic heart (IHD) are often indistinctly used terms. Both combined have generated, over the past years, concerns about sex disparities in their presentation. From an epidemiological perspective, females several disadvantages regarding prevention, diagnosis, treatment of CAD. Most general cardiovascular risk factors affect women more frequently, or with a higher morbidity mortality association. Besides, atypical manifestations uncommon forms CAD represent diagnostic challenge [...]