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Lower Prevalence of Carotid Plaque Hemorrhage in Women, and Its Mediator Effect on Sex Differences in Recurrent Cerebrovascular Events

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Women are at lower risk of stroke, and appear to benefit less from carotid endarterectomy (CEA) than men. We hypothesised that this is due to more benign carotid disease in women mediating a lower risk of recurrent cerebrovascular events. To test this, we investigated sex dif...

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Main Authors: Kandiyil, Neghal, Altaf, Nishath, Hosseini, Akram A., MacSweeney, Shane T., Auer, Dorothee P.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482217/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110067
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047319
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