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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages BE1-BE4Publisher
PREMCHAND SHANTIDEVI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/9635.4771
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Estrogen; Gender; Testosterone
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Biological sex plays an important role in normal cardiac physiology as well as in the heart's response to cardiac disease. Women generally have better cardiac function and survival than do men in the face of cardiac disease; however, this is progressively lost when comparing postmenopausal women with age matched men. Animal model of cardiac disease mirror what is seen in humans. Sex hormones contribute significantly to sex based difference in cardiac functioning and in its disease outcome. Estrogen is considered to be cardioprotective, whereas testosterone is detrimental to heart function.
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