NOUVELLE STRATÉGIE DE PRÉVENTION DES MALADIES CARDIOVASCULAIRES CHEZ LA FEMME

Abstract

Atherosclerosis and its cardiovascular (CV) cardiac complications (heart attack, angina pectoris,
rhythm, heart failure), cerebral (transient ischemic attack, stroke), and peripheral arteries
(arteritis of the lower limbs, aneurysm of the aorta), strike and kill women at least as often as
cancers: 1 in 3 women die from it.
Despite such a scourge, cardiovascular prevention is infinitely less developed in women than in
the man. This does not benefit from the same effort to screen and treat risk factors (hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, smoking) as men, especially when they are young.