Hypertensive women have a better prognosis than men with respect to cardiovascular mortality.
Women with diabetes are at greater risk for coronary artery disease and cardiovascular death than men. Women who smoke more than 35 cigarettes a day have a 20 times higher rate of myocardial infarction than women who never smoked. The risk of myocardial infarction is 3 times greater in premenopausal women that smoke as compared to those who do not smoke.