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Article: Call Made for Changes in Women's Heart Disease Risk-Factor List: Family History, Blood C-Reactive Protein Should Be Added to Traditional Risk Factors for All Older Women.
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- February 13, 2007
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins cardiologists are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman's chances of developing cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death among women in the United States.
In an editorial appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) online Feb. 14, Roger Blumenthal, M.D., and colleagues say that a family history of heart disease and blood levels of a protein tied to vessel inflammation, C-reactive protein, should quickly be added to traditional assessments of women's ...