Women and Heart Disease > Evaluation and Prevention
Male Gender
| CHD and associated cardiac events generally occur at a younger age in men compared with women.5,108 CHD generally occurs in men approximately 10 years earlier than in women, and its more serious complications, such as MI and sudden death, occur about 20 years earlier.108 Men are more likely than women to experience MI as the initial symptom of CHD.108
The lifetime risk of developing CHD after age 40 is 49% for men and 32% in women.4 For people aged 25 to 34 years, the CHD death rate is approximately 3 times higher in men than in women.108 Because CHD occurs earlier in men than women, men are more likely to die from it in the prime of life.
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