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Prevention Guidelines Help Predict Women's Cardiovascular Risk

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  February 17, 2010

EXCERPT: "A simplified strategy for assessing cardiovascular disease risk can predict women's odds of heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular events in the following 10 years, .... "   more

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Hsia J, Rodabough RJ, Manson JE, Liu S, Freiberg MS, Graettinger W, Rosal MC, Cochrane B, Lloyd-Jones D, Robinson JG, Howard BV; for the Women's Health Initiative Research Group. Evaluation of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline for Women. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2010 Feb 16.


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New Way to Predict Women's Heart Risk

SOURCE:  WebMD

DATE:  February 16, 2010

EXCERPT:  "New guidelines for predicting women's heart disease risk, updated in 2007 by the American Heart Association (AHA), work well, according to researchers who put the new strategy to the test."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Hsia J, Rodabough RJ, Manson JE, Liu S, Freiberg MS, Graettinger W, Rosal MC, Cochrane B, Lloyd-Jones D, Robinson JG, Howard BV; for the Women's Health Initiative Research Group. Evaluation of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline for Women. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2010 Feb 16.


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Standards / Guidelines

Brittle, Christine, and Chloe E. Bird [Uncommon Insights]; Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) [produced for].  Literature Review on Effective Sex- and Gender-Based Systems/Models of Care. Arlington, VA: Uncommons Insights, 2007. Table of Contents.

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Subcommittee of the American College of Physicians. Abstract. Pharmacologic treatment of low bone density or osteoporosis to prevent fractures: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med. 2008 Sep 16;149(6):404-15.   Free fulltext.   Take CME course