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Incidence of cardiovascular disease in women is both age-associated and age-specific as reported from the Framingham Study (4). In addition to an increase in cardiovascular disease incidence by age in women, postmenopausal women have a two- to six-fold greater incidence of cardiovascular disease than premenopausal women across the age range <40–54 years.
