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Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Interests: women's heart disease; cost effectiveness of medical procedures; methods of life expectancy calculation in disease population; gender and racial effects on health

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue in women’s health calls for innovative and novel research on the topic of women’s heart disease.

Heart disease is no longer a man’s disease and is the leading cause of death among women aged 35 years and older. Cardiovascular death and heart attacks can be prevented by healthy life style behaviors including physical activities and healthy diet, and optimal pharmaceutical therapy. While great progress has been made in improving cardiovascular outcomes among men in the past decades, the progress in improving women’s cardiovascular outcomes has been sluggish or rather stalled. This may be accounted for by the fact that women are still understudied and underrepresented in heart disease research, despite a recent increased awareness in heart disease risk among women. To overcome this gender disparity and improve women’s cardiovascular health, more research and publications are needed focusing on the female population, which comprises 52% of the world’s population. Thus, the current Special Issue on the topic of women’s heart disease is timely in response to the current gap in the literature.

Emerging topics in women’s heart disease include but are not limited to the following:
Gender specific non-traditional cardiovascular risk and protective factors including sex hormones, cardiac biomarkers, and other disease-related biomarkers
Women- or gender-specific social, cultural, and economic barriers to access to health care
Role of racial and ethnic background in women’s heart disease
Health care professional bias towards women’s risk in heart disease, in particular, among young women under age 40
Pre- and post-partum complications and its short- and long-term effect on increased risk of heart disease among women
Menopause and aging trajectory of heart disease
Mental health and heart disease
Gender difference in clinical presentation and symptoms of coronary artery disease and heart attacks

Dr. Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter
Guest Editor

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women
heart disease
cardiovascular health
gender
cardiovascular risk
heart attack
women’s health

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The Effects of Subjective Wellbeing and Self-Rated Health on Lifetime Risk of Cardiovascular Conditions in Women

Erum Z. Whyne

Jihun Woo

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Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(14), 6380; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20146380 - 17 Jul 2023

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Subjective wellbeing may predict future health conditions, and lower self-rated physical health (SRH) is associated with the presence of chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study examines whether subjective wellbeing and SRH predict long-term CVD conditions for women using the Midlife in the United States study. The study cohort includes 1716 women participants who completed waves 1 (1995–1996), 2 (2004–2006), and 3 (2013–2014). Data on demographics, chronic conditions of diabetes and CVD, subjective wellbeing (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect), and SRH were collected repeatedly at each wave. Multiple logistic regressions were conducted to test whether subjective wellbeing was associated with a lifetime CVD risk. Greater life satisfaction was significantly associated with a lower risk of CVD at 10 years (odds ratio (OR): 0.83; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.74–0.95) and 19 years (OR: 0.83; 95% CI: 0.74–0.93), while positive and negative affects were not significantly associated. Additionally, better physical SRH significantly lowered odds of having cardiovascular conditions at both 10 years (OR: 0.79; 95% CI 0.68–0.92) and 19 years (OR 0.74; 95% CI: 0.64–0.86). Measures of life satisfaction and SRH can be used as additional CVD screening tools. Full article

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Assessing Performance of the Veterans Affairs Women Cardiovascular Risk Model in Predicting a Short-Term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Incidence Using United States Veterans Affairs COVID-19 Shared Data

Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter

Xiaofei Chen

Bala Ramanan

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Shirling Tsai

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(19), 10005; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910005 - 23 Sep 2021

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The current study assessed performance of the new Veterans Affairs (VA) women cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score in predicting women veterans’ 60-day CVD event risk using VA COVID-19 shared cohort data. The study data included 17,264 women veterans—9658 White, 6088 African American, and 1518 Hispanic women veterans—ever treated at US VA hospitals and clinics between 24 February and 25 November 2020. The VA women CVD risk score discriminated patients with CVD events at 60 days from those without CVD events with accuracy (area under the curve) of 78%, 50%, and 83% for White, African American, and Hispanic women veterans, respectively. The VA women CVD risk score itself showed good accuracy in predicting CVD events at 60 days for White and Hispanic women veterans, while it performed poorly for African American women veterans. The future studies are needed to identify non-traditional factors and biomarkers associated with increased CVD risk specific to African American women and incorporate them to the CVD risk assessment. Full article

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