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Health outcomes in cardiovascular disease better for women than men

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Health outcomes in cardiovascular disease better for women than men Hospital Healthcare A team from McMaster University in Ontario followed 202,072 individuals in 27 countries, aged between 35 and 70 from urban and rural communities for a median of 9.5 years. The researchers systematically examined the differences in risk factors, treatments, cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality among people from high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. Using two different cardiovascular risk factor scoring systems (INTERHEART and Framingham), women had a lower cardiovascular risk burden and primary prevention strategies such as healthy lifestyle behaviours and medicine use were more common in women. READ MORE

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