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Why do men get more heart disease than women? Recent global trends in heart disease show that traditional coronary risk factors, such as elevated blood pressure and cholesterol are poor candidates in explaining the gender gap in heart disease. Changes in these risk factors also cannot explain the recent cardiovascular disease epidemic among middle-aged men in Eastern Europe. This book focuses on environmental, behavioural, and psychosocial variables, as well as new risk factors of a biological nature in an attempt to understand the gender gap in heart disease. It combines perspectives from numerous disciplines, such as demography, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition, sociology, and psychology to explore the environmental, behavioural, and psychosocial influences on men's greater susceptibility to heart disease.
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HEART DISEASE: ENVIRONMENT, STRESS AND GENDER
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Series I: Life and Behavioural Sciences - Vol. 327
ISSN: 1566-7693
Heart Disease: Environment, Stress and Gender Edited by
Gerdi Weidner Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito, CA, USA
Maria S. Kopp Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
and
Margareta Kristenson Department of Health and Society, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
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Amsterdam • Berlin • Oxford • Tokyo • Washington, DC Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Increase in Coronary Heart Disease in Central and Eastern Europe: Stress and Gender Related Factors 20-24 May. 2000 Budapest. Hungary
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