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Barbra Streisand endows program at Cedars-Sinai women's heart center
Date:4/16/2008

e frontiers of womens cardiovascular research:

  • Ending cardiac death in women through early detection

  • Advancing new treatments for microvascular coronary dysfunction, an often deadly disorder primarily affecting women

  • Identifying gender-specific genes and proteins that increase or reduce the risk of heart disease in women

  • Conducting clinical trials of promising new drugs for women

  • Understanding how to harness nutrition, exercise, and stress management to reduce heart disease in women

Even physicians do not fully appreciate the degree to which women are at risk for heart disease. Most are insufficiently aware that a woman having a heart attack is 20 percent more likely to die from it than a man. Dr. Bairey Merz urges that It must become a top priority on the national medical agenda to make testing, diagnosis and treatments more relevant to female physiology. We are thrilled Ms. Streisand has chosen to make womens heart health a priority of her philanthropic giving. She goes on to explain: As an endowment, funding for the dissemination of education -- both among women and within the medical community -- and research into relevant testing and treatments can continue, not just for the immediate future, but for generations to come.


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Contact: Janet Keller
janet.keller@cshs.org
310-423-6635
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Source:Eurekalert

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