Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in women, who have a notable
increase in the risk for this disease after menopause and typically develop coronary heart …

Beyond conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, women face an additional
burden of sex-specific risk factors. Key stages of a woman's reproductive history may …

Objective: Our initial understanding of the menopause transition (MT) has been framed by
clinical samples of women seeking treatment rather than by population-based studies. The …

Menopause is often a turning point for women's health worldwide. Increasing knowledge
from experimental data and clinical studies indicates that cardiometabolic changes can …

Women spend approximately one-third of their lives with menopause, which occurs around
50 years of age. It is now appreciated that several important metabolic and cardiovascular …

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women and men globally, with most
due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Despite progress during the last 30 …

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women has unique features, including
associations with reproductive factors that are incompletely understood. Vasomotor …

Objective: Menopause may augment age-dependent increases in arterial stiffness, with
black women having greater progression in midlife compared with white women. We sought …

Menopause is associated with changes consistent with cardiovascular aging. The effects of
cardiac disease are multifaceted, affecting endothelial function, coronary artery physiology …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in women, claiming the
lives of 399,028 US women in 2014. 1 This number is similar to the number of female deaths …