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Editorial
. 2017 Oct;103(20):1567-1568.
doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2017-311921. Epub 2017 Sep 20.

Sex differences in coronary heart disease risk factors: rename it ischaemic heart disease!

Ahmed AlBadri  1 , Janet Wei  2 , Puja K Mehta  1 , Rashmee Shah  3 , Romana Herscovici  2 , Martha Gulati  4 , Chrisandra Shufelt  2 , Noel Bairey Merz  2
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Editorial

Sex differences in coronary heart disease risk factors: rename it ischaemic heart disease!

Ahmed AlBadri et al. Heart. 2017 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac risk factors and prevention; global disease patterns; heart disease.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Distribution of deaths by leading cause groups, males and females, world, 2004
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Sex- and gender-specific medicine is the most ready-for-translation approach among the genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic personalized medicine approaches
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