Context The evidence that measurement of the common carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT)
improves the risk scores in prediction of the absolute risk of cardiovascular events is …

Background Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of death and disability worldwide and is a
strong risk factor for stroke. Whether and to what extent the excess risk of stroke conferred by …

Aims/hypothesis A previous pooled analysis suggested that women with diabetes are at
substantially increased risk of fatal CHD compared with affected men. Additional findings from …

OBJECTIVE Type 2 diabetes confers a greater excess risk of cardiovascular disease in
women than in men. Diabetes is also a risk factor for dementia, but whether the association is …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been seen as a men's disease for decades, however it is
more common in women than in men. It is generally assumed in medicine that the effects of …

Context Imaging for subclinical atherosclerosis on top of conventional risk factor assessment
may improve risk prediction for the occurrence of cardiovascular disease events in …

Background Cardiovascular disease mortality rates are well known to be lower in women
than men and to increase with age. Whether these sex and age effects have changed over …

Background Studies have suggested sex differences in the mortality rate associated with type
1 diabetes. We did a meta-analysis to provide reliable estimates of any sex differences in …

… Connor A Emdin,1 Christopher X Wong,2 Allan J Hsiao,3 Douglas G Altman,4 Sanne AE
Peters,1 Mark Woodward,1,5 Ayodele A Odutayo4 ,6 … ae m ia , h y p e rte …

Background Mortality rates remain high for haemodialysis (HD) patients and simply
increasing the HD dose to remove more small solutes does not improve survival. Online …