Heart Disease Risk Factors
New heart disease risk factors study findings have been reported by researchers at Ulleval University, Center for Preventive Medicine
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 22nd, 2007
Fresh data on heart disease are presented in the report "Do novel risk factors differ between men and women aged 18 to 39 years with a high risk of coronary heart disease. This study aimed to clarify whether high-risk premenopausal women have less atherogenic levels of markers of endothelial dysfunction, oxidation, thrombosis and inflammation, and adipokines than high-risk men of the same age. Thus, we studied levels of these markers and their determinants in 207 men and women aged 18 to 39 years with dyslipidemia and a family history of premature coronary heart disease," researchers in Oslo, Norway report.
"Women had favorable levels of E and P selectins, tumor...
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