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Emerging links between intimate partner violence and women’s cardiovascular disease risk

By Glen Pyle, Member, IMPART (Inflammation & Metabolism, Physical Ability, & Research Translation) Network, Dalhousie University
Olivia Peters, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Guelph
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global gendered epidemic that inordinately impacts females. Worldwide, 25-50 per cent of women report abuse in a personal relationship and two out of three victims of IPV are female.

Although both women and men experience abuse at the hands of their partners, women disproportionately…The Conversation


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