Management of Hypercholesterolemia in Women: Time to Close the Gap

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Conference on Cardiovascular Health: Coming Together for the 21st Century, held February 19-21, 1998, in San Francisco, California, "A causal relationship between serum cholesterol and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is well established. Evidence-based medicine has demonstrated the benefit of lipid lowering on preventing future cardiovascular events. Despite these facts, there has been skepticism toward aggressively treating women with hypercholesterolemia. Historically this may reflect a lack of sufficient numbers of women included in studies of lipids and atherosclerosis to provide conclusive data in this population. The...

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