Sex differences in endothelial function important to vascular health and overall cardiovascular disease risk across the lifespan

AE Stanhewicz, MM Wenner… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Diseases of the cardiovascular system are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in
men and women in developed countries, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is becoming …

Matters of the heart: cellular sex differences

CJ Walker, ME Schroeder, BA Aguado… - Journal of molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nearly all cardiovascular diseases show sexual dimorphisms in prevalence, presentation,
and outcomes. Until recently, most clinical trials were carried out in males, and many animal …

Genes that escape X chromosome inactivation modulate sex differences in valve myofibroblasts

BA Aguado, CJ Walker, JC Grim, ME Schroeder… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Aortic valve stenosis is a sexually dimorphic disease, with women often
presenting with sustained fibrosis and men with more extensive calcification. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the role of sex hormones in Cardiovascular kidney metabolic syndrome: toward personalized therapeutic approaches

M Guldan, S Unlu, SM Abdel-Rahman, L Ozbek… - Journal of clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cardiovascular kidney metabolic (CKM) syndrome represents a complex interplay of
cardiovascular disease (CVD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), and metabolic comorbidities …

Sex-specific characteristics of the microcirculation

VH Huxley, SS Kemp - Sex-specific analysis of cardiovascular function, 2018 - Springer
The requirements of metabolizing tissue are both continuous and variable; accordingly, the
microvasculature serving that tissue must be similarly dynamic. Just as it is recognized that …

Endothelin and the heart in health and diseases

T Miyauchi, S Sakai - Peptides, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a 21-amino acid peptide, was initially identified in 1988 as a
potent vasoconstrictor and pressor substance isolated from the culture supernatant of …

Hyperuricemia and endothelial function: is it a simple association or do gender differences play a role in this binomial?

T Ciarambino, P Crispino, M Giordano - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The endothelium plays a fundamental role in the biological processes that ensure
physiological vessel integrity, synthesizing numerous substances that are capable of …

Estrogen contributions to microvascular dysfunction evolving to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

AA Sickinghe, SJA Korporaal, HM Den Ruijter… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a syndrome involving microvascular
dysfunction. No treatment is available yet and as the HFpEF patient group is expanding due …

Acclimation to a High‐Salt Diet Is Sex Dependent

EY Gohar, C De Miguel, IE Obi… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Premenopausal women are less likely to develop hypertension and salt‐related
complications than are men, yet the impact of sex on mechanisms regulating Na+ …

Sex differences in regulation of blood pressure

JF Reckelhoff - Sex-Specific Analysis of Cardiovascular Function, 2018 - Springer
Hypertension is one of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular disease, myocardial
infarction, and stroke. There are gender differences in the prevalence of hypertension and in …