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. 2011;38(2):148-50.

Gender balance in cardiovascular research: importance to women's health

Anne Hamilton Dougherty  1
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Gender balance in cardiovascular research: importance to women's health

Anne Hamilton Dougherty. Tex Heart Inst J. 2011.
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Fig. 1 Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Trends for Males and Females in the United States: 1979–2006. Reproduced with permission.
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Fig. 2 Percentages of women in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), compared with the percentages of women among the populations with given diseases and the percentages of women among deaths attributable to those diseases. The upper 95th percentile of the confidence interval for the proportion of women in RCTs is shown by the whisker. Hyperlipidemia is defined as low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol >130 mg/dL. The proportion of women among deaths due to hyperlipidemia is not reported in Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics (American Heart Association). Reproduced with permission.
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