PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anita Zeiler Arnold
AU  - Donald A. Underwood
TI  - Coronary artery disease in women: a risk-factor analysis
DP  - 1993 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 387--392
VI  - 60
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/60/5/387.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/60/5/387.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1993 Sep 01; 60
AB  - BACKGROUND Risk factor modification is important in preventing coronary artery disease; however, risk factors for coronary artery disease have been studied mostly in men, not women.OBJECTIVE To examine risk factors for coronary artery disease in women.METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of all adult women who underwent their first-ever cardiac catheterization at our institution in 1983. Risk factors in women with angiographic evidence of coronary atherosclerosis were compared with risk factors in women without angiographic evidence of coronary artery disease.RESULTS Risk factors identified included age, diabetes melli-tus, hypertension for more than 5 years, hyperlipidemia, smoking, and familial coronary artery disease.CONCLUSIONS Risk factors for coronary artery disease in women are similar to those of men.