СARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

Abstract

This review discusses actual scientific results on cardiovascular risk factors, such as sex hormones, age at menopause, dyslipidemia, sympathicotony, body weight and obesity, etc., in postmenopausal women. Some aspects of assessment of cardiovascular risk in women, according with guidelines of American Heart Association (2011), were discussed also. Key points of preventive interventions were highlighted

Keywords

• menopause
• female
• cardiovascular risk