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(Hypertension. 2008;51:951.)
© 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.

Go Red Preface

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease in Women

From the Department of Physiology (J.E.H., J.P.G., J.F.R.), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson; and the Department of Medicine (K.S.), Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Correspondence to John E. Hall, PhD, Department of Physiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State St, Jackson, MS 39216-4505. E-mail jehall@physiology.umsmed.edu

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Despite the efforts of many healthcare professionals, voluntary health organizations, and policy makers, many women as well as many healthcare professionals are still unaware that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women. Surveys by the American Heart Association (AHA) indicate that <50% of women realize that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, and only 13% of women indicated that cardiovascular disease was their own greatest personal health threat.¹ In 2004, the AHA launched the "Go Red for Women" movement to increase public awareness of this problem, and in the same year, the first evidence-based guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease in women were published.²

This year, as part of the AHA "Go Red for Women" movement, the editors of Hypertension placed a special call for papers related to hypertension and cardiovascular disease in women. Our goals were to help convey the importance of prevention and treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in women, to emphasize that hypertension is a critical cardiovascular risk factor in women, and to publish the newest and best research related to hypertension in women.

Extensive data indicate that the risk of death from ischemic heart disease and stroke increases progressively and linearly with increasing blood pressure in women as well as men.³ There appears to be a sexual dimorphism in blood pressure so that women have lower systolic blood pressures than men during early adulthood, whereas the opposite is true after the sixth decade of life when the prevalence . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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