Traduction de «maladie des femmes sans pouls » (Français → Anglais) :

D. whereas women and girls continue to be affected disproportionately by HIV/AIDS, with women accounting for approximately 60% of HIV/AIDS infections in sub-Saharan Africa and HIV/AIDS still being the leading cause of death and illness in women of reproductive age,

supporting policies to promote health, education and training, including not only measures to combat the major communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases and disorders, but also access to services and education for good health, including reproductive and infant health for girls and women.

28. Stresses the medical and economic impact of the high incidence of and mortality from cardiovascular diseases among women; calls on the Member States therefore, in the training of medical staff, expressly to draw attention to the different clinical pictures and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases in women and men and to include women in current and future studies of cardiovascular diseases; welcomes in this connection also the new European Union antismoking campaign 'HELP - For a Life Without Tobacco', which is intended to induce more women and men to stop smoking, thereby reducing the risk they run of contracting a cardiovascular d ...[+++]isease, and particularly of suffering a heart attack; calls on the Commission and Member States to reduce heart disease and strokes in women by developing preventive strategies, diagnostic tests, treatment and rehabilitation policies which address women’s needs;

As young women have a much lower pre-test likelihood than men to have CHD, positive results have to be interpreted taking gender into account, because such tests done on young women would generate more false positive results than results indicative of a genuine disease,

A woman with a family history of breast cancer will generally pay an additional risk premium compared to a woman who has no such family history, because it is a key risk factor for a woman’s risk of developing this disease.

Efforts to promote synergies with policies and programmes on reproductive and sexual health and rights, poverty-related diseases, programmes linked to HIV and AIDS, measures to combat violence, the education of girls and other issues affecting them, training for women of all ages, the elderly, the environment, human rights, conflict prevention, democratisation, the participation of women in the political, economic and social decision-making process, will also be considered.