Women and coronary heart disease: New recommendations

Abstract

Last month the British Cardiovascular Society launched new guidelines on optimizing women’s heart health. John Albarran discusses the issues surrounding the problems of women and heart disease.

Women’s experiences of undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery

“…Such findings confirm the need to promote primary prevention and early management of women with CHD. As women fail to perceive themselves as candidates for CHD (Lockyer 2005), there is a need for gender‐sensitive cardiac health education, for tailored risk assessment, counselling support and appropriate referral to specialists (Albarran 2007, British Cardiovascular Society 2007). In particular, greater awareness is needed in younger women in whom risk factor management would have greatest impact (Robertson 2001, Jacobs & Eckel 2005).…”