Women’s heart health: should the physical activity recommendations be different?

Heart disease in women is currently under-recognised, under-diagnosed, under-treated and underresearched, despite coronary heart disease (CHD) being the leading cause of mortality for women cardiac events based on these sex-specific sedentary behaviour thresholds, with risk reductions 1 25% vs13% respectively. 2Together, these results highlight a sex differential response in physical activity and sedentary 3 behaviour with morbidity and mortality in general and CHD populations.It is well known that men 4 have a greater exercise capacity than women due to physiological differences 17 .Yet, we