Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 26, Issue 3

For many years, cardiovascular disease was considered a male disease.[...]

Albrecht von Haller [...]

With the continuous improvement of therapies against breast cancer, the long-term onset of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is becoming increasingly relevant for both cardiologists and oncologists. Not only CVD arises from known cardiac side effects of s...

The prevalence of heart failure (HF) is increasing mainly due to population aging. There are important biological (sex) and sociocultural (gender) differences in epidemiology, pathophysiology, phenotype, prognosis and treatment of HF between women an...

The influence of sex–considered to be the biological differences between women and men– and gender–considered to be sociologically constructed differences based on membership in one of the two sex categories–appears to be particularly important for n...

Cardiovascular diseases in pregnancy are increasing, and account for the majority of pregnancy-induced maternal deaths. Among them, hypertensive disorders are the most frequent, affecting 6–8% of all pregnancies. More severe forms, like preeclampsia...

Hypertension is the number one killer for women, with a greater burden for women than men and it is an important risk factor for target organ damage. Women are less frequently affected by arterial hypertension than men during their reproductive life,...