Heart disease environment, stress, and gender
Why do men get more heart disease than women? Recent global trends in heart disease show that traditional coronary risk factors, such as elevated blood pressure and cholesterol are poor candidates in explaining the gender gap in heart disease. Changes in these risk factors also cannot explain the re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Washington, DC :
IOS Press
c2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences ;
v. 327. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798012606719 |
| Summary: | Why do men get more heart disease than women? Recent global trends in heart disease show that traditional coronary risk factors, such as elevated blood pressure and cholesterol are poor candidates in explaining the gender gap in heart disease. Changes in these risk factors also cannot explain the recent cardiovascular disease epidemic among middle-aged men in Eastern Europe. This book focuses on environmental, behavioural, and psychosocial variables, as well as new risk factors of a biological nature in an attempt to understand the gender gap in heart disease. It combines perspectives from num |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781280505331 9786000004460 9781601294333 9786610505333 |
