NIH R01 · 2024
Although women and men have about an equal prevalence of type 2 diabetes (DM), DM imposes a clinically significant excess relative risk of coronary heart disease (44% higher), stroke (27% higher) and vascular dementia (19% higher) in women compared to men. Understanding these sex differences could inform research to improve DM outcomes for both women and men. Postulated reasons for the “female disadvantage” include an adverse cardiometabolic profile (particularly greater obesity) and disparities in aggressiveness of CV preventive treatments (e.g. use of statins). In addition, differences in endogenous sex hormones, including estradiol (E2), testosterone (T) and sex hormone binding globulin…
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