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Nuclear Cardiology in Women

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Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is considered more common in men than women and most of the initial studies in IHD conducted focused mainly on men. Often women were not included in cardiovascular research programs. The life-time risk of IHD is one in three for women [1], but women themselves consider breast cancer as their major killer rather than IHD [2]. Since the early 1990s some research has concentrated on IHD in women and a better understanding of gender-related differences has been developed; this includes the epidemiology of IHD in women, identifying risk factors, determining the diagnostic problems encountered with IHD, and possible treatment outcomes [3].

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  1. Shankat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan

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  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, NW3 2QG, London, UK

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Khan, A., Buscombe, J. (2009). Nuclear Cardiology in Women. In: Movahed, A., Gnanasegaran, G., Buscombe, J., Hall, M. (eds) Integrating Cardiology for Nuclear Medicine Physicians. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78674-0_25

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