Sex differences in heart failure

CSP Lam, C Arnott, AL Beale… - European heart …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The overall lifetime risk of heart failure (HF) is similar between men and women, however,
there are marked sex differences in the landscape of this condition that are both important …

The contribution of health behaviors to socioeconomic inequalities in health: a systematic review

D Petrovic, C de Mestral, M Bochud, M Bartley… - Preventive …, 2018 - Elsevier
Unhealthy behaviors and their social patterning have been frequently proposed as factors
mediating socioeconomic differences in health. However, a clear quantification of the …

COVID-19 case-fatality rate and demographic and socioeconomic influencers: worldwide spatial regression analysis based on country-level data

Y Cao, A Hiyoshi, S Montgomery - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To investigate the influence of demographic and socioeconomic factors on the
COVID-19 case-fatality rate (CFR) globally. Design Publicly available register-based …

Sex differences in the prevalence of, and trends in, cardiovascular risk factors, treatment, and control in the United States, 2001 to 2016

SAE Peters, P Muntner, M Woodward - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Improvements have been made in the treatment and control of some but not all
major cardiovascular risk factors in the United States. It remains unclear whether women …

Sex differences in risk factors for myocardial infarction: cohort study of UK Biobank participants

ERC Millett, SAE Peters, M Woodward - bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Objectives To investigate sex differences in risk factors for incident myocardial infarction (MI)
and whether they vary with age. Design Prospective population based study. Setting UK …

Human papillomavirus in cervical cancer and oropharyngeal cancer: one cause, two diseases

TA Berman, JT Schiller - Cancer, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes greater than 5% of cancers worldwide, including all
cervical cancers and an alarmingly increasing proportion of oropharyngeal cancers (OPCs) …

Gender/sex as a social determinant of cardiovascular risk

A O'Neil, AJ Scovelle, AJ Milner, A Kavanagh - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
The social gradient for cardiovascular disease (CVD) onset and outcomes is well
established. The American Heart Association's Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes of …

Sex differences in cardiovascular risk factors and disease prevention

Y Appelman, BB van Rijn, ME Ten Haaf, E Boersma… - Atherosclerosis, 2015 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been seen as a men's disease for decades, however it is
more common in women than in men. It is generally assumed in medicine that the effects of …

The comparison between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma in lung cancer patients

BY Wang, JY Huang, HC Chen, CH Lin, SH Lin… - Journal of cancer …, 2020 - Springer
Background There are several studies comparing the difference between adenocarcinoma
(AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) of lung cancer. However, seldom studies …

Exposing and addressing tobacco industry conduct in low-income and middle-income countries

AB Gilmore, G Fooks, J Drope, SA Bialous, RR Jackson - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
The tobacco industry's future depends on increasing tobacco use in low-income and middle-
income countries (LMICs), which face a growing burden of tobacco-related disease, yet …