UCLA Health's Healthy Years (HY)
Volume 22 • Number 2 • February 2025
Sex Differences in Heart Disease

Biological, hormonal, and physiological differences contribute to how heart disease presents, progresses, and responds to treatment in men and women. Symptoms can vary by sex, too. Knowing these distinctions can improve diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes, particularly as we get older, when heart disease risk increases. The Role of Age and …