Khronicheskaya serdechnaya nedostatochnost' (KhSN) ostaetsya odnoy iz vazhneyshikh problem sovremennoy meditsiny. Bolee poloviny patsientov s ochevidnoy serdechnoy nedostatochnost'yu imeyut prakticheski normal'nuyu sokratimost' miokarda, i chislo takikh bol'nykh budet neuklonno uvelichivat'sya, chto, nesomnenno, svyazano s uluchsheniem diagnostiki i lecheniya serdechno-sosudistykh zabolevaniy i, v pervuyu ochered', infarkta miokarda. V knige predstavleny dannye o vyyavlennykh gendernykh osobennostyakh faktorov riska, ob"ema porazheniya i lokalizatsii IM, ustanovlena razlichnaya stepen' vyrazhennosti KhSN u muzhchin i zhenshchin, perenesshikh IM.V rabote vpervye pokazany gendernye osobennosti pokazateley vnutriserdechnoy gemodinamiki i sutochnogo profilya AD pri razvitii KhSN s sokhranennoy sistolicheskoy funktsiey posle perenesennogo infarkta miokarda, chto dopolnyaet imeyushchiesya predstavleniya o patogeneze KhSN s sokhranennoy sistolicheskoy funktsiey u dannoy kategorii bol'nykh. Kniga predstavlyaet interes dlya kardiologov, terapevtov, vrachey obshchey praktiki, studentov meditsinskikh VUZov.