© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino and Hans-Christian Deter (eds.)Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6_5 5. Depression and Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms Involved in this Association Diana A. Chirinos1 …
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino and Hans-Christian Deter (eds.)Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6_8 8. Sleep as a Means of Recovery and Restitution in Women: The Relation with Psychosocial Stress…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino and Hans-Christian Deter (eds.)Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6_3 3. Coronary Heart Disease in Women: Evolution of Our Knowledge Nanette Kass Wenger1 (1) Department of Medicine, Division…
and Karin Manhem2 (1) Department of Cardiology and Epidemiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Abstract Women die from coronary…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino and Hans-Christian Deter (eds.)Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6_7 7. On Basic Physiological Stress Mechanisms in Men and Women: Gender Observations on Catecholamines, Cortisol and…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino and Hans-Christian Deter (eds.)Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6_1 1. Enhancing Women’s Heart Health from a Global Perspective Sarah P. Wamala1 (1) Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden …
Potential impact of the transition in risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the population Transition→ Changes in the risk profile for cardiovascular diseases→ Possible metabolic responses (which may vary between…
Fig. 1 Global Action Is Needed It is obvious that all of this is too much and too important to be left in the hands of the cardiologists or of…
Fig. 1 Risk of CHD according to elevated blood pressure (BP), elevated cholesterol, and left ventricular hypertrophy: Framingham cohort 6-year follow-up. Elevated BP = ≥160/95; elevated cholesterol = ≥260 mg/dl (D’Agostinho et al….
Fig. 1 West–east gradient in CVD mortality Fig. 2 Expenditure on health care Within Europe, CVD mortality has in general declined in the West and increased in the East, although…
