women's health

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Introduction

Women-specific disorders

Disorders common to men & women:

women > 60 years of age at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease than for breast cancer[6]

male physicians with more exposure to female patients & female physicians have more success treating female patients with myocardial infarction[11]

More general terms

Additional terms

References

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  2. Moroney JW, Zahn CM. Common gynecologic problems in geriatric-aged women. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Sep;50(3):687-708. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17762418
  3. Depression: What Every Woman Should Know http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depwomenknows.cfm
  4. Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Women and Mental Health Research http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/womensoms.cfm
  5. Associated Press (07/04)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Women Are Not Reducing Their Risk Factors for Heart Disease after Bypass Surgery http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/jun2000/story05.htm
  7. Alzheimer's News 3/19/2014 http://www.alz.org/news_and_events_women_in_their_60s.asp
  8. Ganschow PS, Jacobs EA, Mackinnon J, Charney P. Update in women's health. J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Jun;24(6):765-70. Review. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19259751 Free PMC Article
  9. Tornabene M Primary Care of Refugee Women NEJM Journal Watch. April 4, 2017 Massachusetts Medical Society http://www.jwatch.org/na43677/2017/04/04/primary-care-refugee-women
  10. 10.0 10.1 Hall PS, Nah G, Howard BV et al. Reproductive factors and incidence of heart failure hospitalization in the Women's Health Initiative. J Am Coll Cardiol 2017 May 15; PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521890
    Scott NS. Understanding hormones, menopause, and heart failure: Still a work in progress. J Am Coll Cardiol 2017 May 15 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521891
  11. 11.0 11.1 Greenwood BN, Carnahan S, Huang L Partient-physician gender concordance and increased mortality among female heart attack patients. PNAS August 6, 2018. 201800097 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082406 <Internet> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1800097115
  12. 12.0 12.1 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 18, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2018
  13. Mieres JH, Gulati M, Bairey Merz N et al Role of noninvasive testing in the clinical evaluation of women with suspected ischemic heart disease: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2014 Jul 22;130(4):350-79. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25047587

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