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  1. Sanne A.E. PETERS, Research fellow in Epidemiology | Cited by 7,277 | of University of Oxford, Oxford (OX) | Read 102 publications | Contact Sanne A.E. PETERS

    • ABSTRACT
    • INTRODUCTION
    • Key messages
    • Sex versus gender
    • Redefining women’s health
    • Current policies and practices
    • CONCLUSION

    Global efforts to improve the health of women largely focus on improving sexual and reproductive health. However, the global burden of disease has changed significantly over the past decades. Currently, the greatest burden of death and disability among women is attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), most notably cardiovascular diseases, ...

    The global burden of disease among women has changed significantly over the past decades. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now the leading causes of death and disability for women in almost all coun-tries of the world. Nearly 80% of NCDs occur in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and it is particularly in these parts of the world ...

    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the ▸ leading causes of death and disability among women worldwide. The global agenda for the health of women needs to be redefined and broadened to ensure the allocation of adequate resources to: Increase awareness, promote research, and implement policies and interventions to prevent, treat and optimise outcom...

    Sex refers to the true biological and physiological differences between men and women, including differences in hormonal pro-files and sex organs, which result from a single chromosomal dif-ference between men (XY) and women (XX). Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that are considered appropriate ...

    Current approaches to improving the health of women do not address those health conditions that are responsible for the greatest burden of ill health, namely NCDs. It also does not fully address the importance of certain repro-ductive health factors—such as gestational diabetes and pregnancy-induced hypertension—for the health of women in later lif...

    The United Nation (UN) MDGs formed a blueprint ’s agreed to by all the world’s countries and major develop-ment institutions to improve international development

    The global agenda for women health needs to be broa- ’s dened and rede ned and a sex-disaggregated approach fi to health research and policy is required. While NCDs are the leading causes of death and disability among women globally, they remain insuf ciently addressed in fi global strategies to improve the health of women. Adequate resources and c...

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    • Sanne A E Peters, Mark Woodward, Mark Woodward, Vivekanand Jha, Stephen Kennedy, Robyn Norton
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    • 2016
  2. A better understanding of the three-dimensional mechanics of the pelvis, at the patient-specific level, may lead to improved treatment modalities. Although finite element (FE) models of the pelvis have been developed, validation by direct comparison with subject-specific strains has not been perform ….

    • Andrew E. Anderson, Christopher L. Peters, Benjamin D. Tuttle, Jeffrey A. Weiss
    • 2005
  3. Abstract. There is a major epidemic of obesity, and many obese patients suffer with respiratory symptoms and disease. The overall impact of obesity on lung function is multifactorial, related to mechanical and inflammatory aspects of obesity.

    • Anne E. Dixon, Ubong Peters
    • 2018
  4. Sanne AE Peters's 21 research works with 168 citations and 575 reads, including: Letter to the Editor: Sex hormones and risk of coronary artery disease in women

  5. May 5, 2020 · Abstract. Background Timely recognition of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is important for successful treatment. Previous research has suggested that women with ACS present with different symptoms compared with men.

  6. Aug 29, 2020 · Data extraction. We extracted, whenever appropriate, data on study characteristics, definition of vascular age, proposed methods of defining vascular age, chronological and vascular age in the study, and the yield in cardiovascular risk prediction.