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- Title
COVID-19, the wake-up call for implementing sex and gender in cardiovascular disease.
- Authors
Maas, Angela H E M
- Abstract
COVID-19,thewake-upcallforimplementing sexandgenderincardiovasculardisease AngelaH.E.M.Maas * Chair of Women's Cardiac Health Program, Department of Cardiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein-Zuid 10, Route 616, 6525GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands Keywords Cardiovascular disease Equality Gender Women Sex differences The COVID-19 pandemic has once again shown that gender diversity, ethnic disparities, lifestyle factors, and socio-economic circumstances are crucial determinants of health. 13 The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that sex and gender matters, and prevention programmes now focus on managing risk factors to lowertherisk.
- Subjects
SEX factors in disease; GENDER; COVID-19; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID syndrome
- Publication
Cardiovascular Research, 2021, Vol 117, Issue 3, pe39
- ISSN
0008-6363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cvr/cvab023