The increase awareness of cardiovascular risk factors is an important
concern and may help to avoid or to moderate an aggressive management of
cardiovascular events in the future. The factors (healthy diet, physical activities, body
weight reduction and smoking cessation), whose modification could improve the
cardiovascular disease outcomes in women, will be analyzed.
Clinical trials that involved women under treatment for dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus
or arterial hypertension will be also analyzed. Moreover, data of hormone replacement
therapy in women as well as in animal models will be discussed.
Keywords: Antidiabetic drugs, Antihypertensive drugs, Body weight, Healthy
diet, Lipid lowering drugs, Physical activities, Smoking cessation, Women.
