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Coronary Heart Disease
Traditional risk-factor scoring misses one-third of women vulnerable to CHD
January 5th, 2006
Traditional risk-factor scoring fails to identify approximately one-third of women likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD), the leading cause of death of women in the United States, according to a pair of reports from cardiologists at Johns Hopkins. "Our best means of preventing coronary heart disease is to identify those most likely to develop the condition, and intervene with lifestyle changes and drug treatment before symptoms start to appear," says the senior author of both studies, cardiologist Roger Blumenthal, MD an associate professor and director of the Ciccarone Preventive Cardiology Center at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-05)
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