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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Murphy, Elizabeth
• Amanakis, Georgios
• Fillmore, Natasha
• Parks, Randi J
• Sun, Junhui

Titel

Sex Differences in Metabolic Cardiomyopathy

Ist Teil von

• Cardiovascular research, 2017-03, Vol.113 (4), p.370-377

Ort / Verlag

England: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In contrast to ischemic cardiomyopathies which are more common in men, women are over-represented in diabetic cardiomyopathies. Diabetes is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease; however, there is a sexual dimorphism in this risk factor: heart disease is five times more common in diabetic women but only two-times more common in diabetic men. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, which is associated with metabolic syndrome, is also more prevalent in women. This review will examine potential mechanisms for the sex differences in metabolic cardiomyopathies. Sex differences in metabolism, calcium handling, nitric oxide, and structural proteins will be evaluated. Nitric oxide synthase and PPARα exhibit sex differences and have also been proposed to mediate the development of hypertrophy and heart failure. We focused on a role for these signalling pathways in regulating sex differences in metabolic cardiomyopathies.