Featured Open Lecture: July-August 2026

Sex-specific differences in cardiovascular risk factors and implications for cardiovascular disease prevention in women

The lecture addresses how cardiovascular risk differs between women and men and discusses how traditional risk factors, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, obesity and smoking, may differ by sex in prevalence, biological impact and clinical consequences. The lecture also emphasizes that women remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in cardiovascular prevention, despite having a substantial lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease.

A key message is the need for more sex-aware prevention strategies, including improved risk assessment, earlier recognition of risk factors and better implementation of evidence-based prevention.