Women’s Heart and Estrogens

Author(s): Genovefa D. Kolovou

DOI: 10.2174/9781681081120115010007

Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Pp: 136-155 (20)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

Abstract

The increase awareness of cardiovascular risk factors is an important concern and may help to avoid or to moderate an aggressive management of cardiovascular events in the future. The factors (healthy diet, physical activities, body weight reduction and smoking cessation), whose modification could improve the cardiovascular disease outcomes in women, will be analyzed.

Clinical trials that involved women under treatment for dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus or arterial hypertension will be also analyzed. Moreover, data of hormone replacement therapy in women as well as in animal models will be discussed.

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