Clinical research must be translated into changes in clinical practice. One of the difficulties faced by physicians is how to apply results of randomized clinical trials to patients with different profiles from those enrolled in the studies. So, one common question is: Is it appropriate to use clinical trial results in my patient? It is not easy to make clinical decisions based on results from clinical research that does not consider racial identity, ethnicity, age, or gender of patients. One […]

This issue of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences comes at a time when the medical and scientific community are finally addressing an important issue that has been somehow neglected over the years. That is gender equity when dealing with health and scientific issues. This relates not only with the medical differences between genders in many clinical conditions, but also how gender equity is still an enormous issue when we are dealing with health care forces, payments, access to leading […]