Sex and Your Heart Health includes the information about sex and your heart that patients don't ask and doctors don't tell. This book offers practical advice on keeping your heart and sex life healthy. It includes frank discussions about how heart disease can affect your sex life and what can be done to deal with these problems.
Sex and Your Heart Health is written by a cardiologist and his physician wife, who have a combined experience of over 50 years practicing medicine. Topics in this book include;
- Sex and the healthy heart,
- Sex and heart disease.
- Medications and sex
- Women and heart disease, and
- Sex after heart surgery.
It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer. But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke than men or why women are more apt to develop autoimmune diseases such as lupus.
Sex differences in health throughout the lifespan have been documented. Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health begins to snap the pieces of the puzzle into place so that this knowledge can be used to improve health for both sexes. From behavior and cognition to metabolism and response to chemicals and infectious organisms, this book explores the health impact of sex (being male or female, according to reproductive organs and chromosomes) and gender (one's sense of self as male or female in society).
Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health discusses basic biochemical differences in the cells of males and females and health variability between the sexes from conception throughout life. The book identifies key research needs and opportunities and addresses barriers to research.
Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health will be important to health policy makers, basic, applied, and clinical researchers, educators, providers, and journalists-while being very accessible to interested lay readers.
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