Abstract
Coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, and ischaemic stroke increase sharply in prevalence with age in both men and women.1 The understanding that such diseases are more likely to occur in women after the menopause has motivated research into the cardiovascular effects of low blood oestrogen concentrations. By contrast, it is less well appreciated that blood testosterone concentrations also decrease gradually with age in women, although these concentrations can rise again at the start of the seventh decade.
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