Hanna Z. Mieszczanska • Gladys P. Velarde
Editors

2014

Recent decades have witnessed great progress in the treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Due to improved therapies, preventive strategies and increased public awareness, CVD mortality has been on the decline over this span of time for both genders. Unfortunately, the decline has been less prominent for women. Once viewed as a man’s disease, CVD remains the leading cause of mortality for women in the United States and is responsible for a third of all deaths of women worldwide and half of all deaths of women over 50 years of age in developing countries.