A monthly publication of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and considered the main channel for the promotion of Brazilian cardiovascular research.
ISSN 0066-782X
eISSN 1678-4170
Glaucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
, Fátima Elizabeth Fonseca de Oliveira Negri, Nadine Oliveira Clausell, Maria da Consolação V. Moreira, Olga Ferreira de Souza, [...]
Glaucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira
, Fátima Elizabeth Fonseca de Oliveira Negri, Nadine Oliveira Clausell, Maria da Consolação V. Moreira, Olga Ferreira de Souza, [...]
DOI: 10.5935/abc.20190111
Objective The primary objective of this document is to stimulate improvements in women’s health conditions in Brazil, with a focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is responsible for 17.5 million premature deaths yearly worldwide. This number is predicted to increase to 23 million by 2030. CVD are responsible for one third of all deaths in Brazil, with similarities between men and postmenopausal women. These data assume even greater importance when we consider that 80% of premature deaths could have been […]
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention and control; Demography; Education, Medical; Management Quality Circles; Medicine/ trends; Prevalence; Risk Factors; Societies, Medical; Women