Table 1. Women and cardiovascular disease.

Sex-specific risk factors under-recognized	Traditional risk factors poorly considered	Lifestyle modification early on: Life's simple 7 must be done!
Prematurity	Hypertension	Blood pressure management
Age at menarche (≤10 years)	Hypercholesterolemia	Lipids control
Polycystic ovarian syndrome	Metabolic syndrome	Control weight (normal body mass index)
Contraceptive use (type, duration)	Diabetes	Reduce blood sugar
Gestational diabetes	Smoke	Stop smoking
Premature ovarian failure/menopause		Become and remaining active. Exercise 150 min/day
Gestational hypertension, especially pre-eclampsia		Healthy diet
Delivery small for gestational age infant	Key points Cardiovascular disease is poorly diagnosed False perception that women are at low-risk population: reduced awareness and there is a need for reconsideration this bias of recognition Knowledge barriers: lack of specific evidenced-based data Risk calculation maybe different for men and women in a more personalized way Consider lifestyle modifications and treatment early on when sex-specific risk factors are present
Pre-term delivery (<37 weeks)
Recurrent miscarriage
Breast cancer treatment
Inflammatory diseases
Depression and stress