Copyright © 2003 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Letter to the Editor
Cardiovascular risk factors in women
Department of Epidemiology, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
* Correspondence to: Prof. Dr H. Kesteloot, Department of Epidemiology, K.U. Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 33, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel: +32 16 336894; Fax: +32 16 336884
E-mail address: Hugo.Kesteloot@med.kuleuven.ac.be
Received 6 December 2002; accepted 5 July 2003
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The study of coronary atherogenic risk factors and their consequences in women is interesting. The contention however that more women than men are dying from coronary heart disease (CHD) although correct, can be misleading.1At all ages, death from total cardiovascular disease