Tackling coronary heart disease

摘要

Coronary heart disease is the commonest cause of death in the United Kingdom, with marked gender differences in incidence, presentation, referral, recovery, and rehabilitation.Current policy on coronary heart disease is written in gender neutral language at a time when treatment has been moving towards a more behavioural model, where cardiac rehabilitation is a therapeutic option and changing cardiac health behaviour a major objective. Given the importance of this there is a need for health strategy that is gender sensitive.