Gender, Cardiovascular Disease, and the Sexism of Obesity

Affiliations

¹ Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: merz@cshs.org.
² New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
³ Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

Free article

Editorial

C Noel Bairey Merz et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015.

Free article

. 2015 Nov 3;66(18):1958-1960.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.08.860.

¹ Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: merz@cshs.org.
² New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
³ Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

No abstract available

Keywords: acute myocardial infarction; gender; obesity.

Comment on

Sex Differences in Cardiac Risk Factors, Perceived Risk, and Health Care Provider Discussion of Risk and Risk Modification Among Young Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: The VIRGO Study.
Leifheit-Limson EC, D'Onofrio G, Daneshvar M, Geda M, Bueno H, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM, Lichtman JH. Leifheit-Limson EC, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Nov 3;66(18):1949-1957. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.08.859. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015. PMID: 26515996 Free PMC article.