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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20190132</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Short Editorial</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Profile of Brazilian Cardiologists: An Overview of Female Leadership in Cardiology and Stress - Challenges for the Next Decade</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-7452-3870</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Mesquita</surname>
            <given-names>Evandro Tinoco</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">3</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-0454-6740</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Correia</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Thadeu de Oliveira</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-4945-7402</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Barbetta</surname>
            <given-names>Let&#237;cia Mara dos Santos</given-names>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Diretoria de Qualidade Assistencial</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <city>Rio de Janeiro</city>
          <state>RJ</state>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - Diretoria de Qualidade Assistencial, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil</institution>
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      <aff id="aff2">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal Fluminense</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <city>Niter&#243;i</city>
          <state>RJ</state>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niter&#243;i, RJ - Brazil</institution>
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      <aff id="aff3">
        <label>3</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Hospital Pr&#243;-Card&#237;aco</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <city>Rio de Janeiro</city>
          <state>RJ</state>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Hospital Pr&#243;-Card&#237;aco, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Mailing Address: Let&#237;cia Mara dos Santos Barbetta &#8226;</bold> Hospital Universit&#225;rio Ant&#244;nio Pedro - Av. Marqu&#234;s do Paran&#225;, 303. Postal Code: 24033-900, Niter&#243;i, RJ - Brazil E-mail: <email>leticiabarbetta@gmail.com</email>
				</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>08</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>113</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>69</fpage>
      <lpage>70</lpage>
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          <license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited</license-p>
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        <title>Keywords:</title>
        <kwd>Cardiologists</kwd>
        <kwd>Leardership</kwd>
        <kwd>Salaries and Fringe Benefits</kwd>
        <kwd>Women</kwd>
        <kwd>Gender Identity</kwd>
        <kwd>Sexism</kwd>
        <kwd>Prejudice</kwd>
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    <p>Cardiology is a medical specialty that often involves outpatient and hospital activity, leading cardiovascular care in a complex setting with aging. Increasing levels of complex decision-making and knowledge about technological resources can generate overload of activities and changes in the profile of Brazilian cardiologists, such as in their compensation, free time and stress levels. As such, medical demography studies are key to understanding the dynamics of these healthcare professionals.</p>
    <p>In the study by Faganello et al.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> the authors investigated the profile of Brazilian cardiologists in a cross-sectional study conducted in 2017, based on questionnaires sent by e-mail to fellow cardiologists of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) who have been paying their membership fees regularly. Worth noting is that the likelihood of cardiologists with lower incomes not paying their membership fees is something that could generate bias in the study, thus influencing the results on their income. In addition to that, the study does not include anyone who has been exercising their professional activity without being members of SBC.</p>
    <p>Of the 13,462 associates who pay their fees regularly, 70.9% are males, which is similar to the 2018 medical demographics published by the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine, which identified 15,516 cardiology specialists, of which 70.1% were males, revealing that there is no significant difference between men and women joining SBC.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> Despite the significant difference between the percentage of female and male cardiologists, in the study concerned, women represented the largest share of the youngest age groups, which may reveal an increase in the number of women joining the cardiology community in recent years.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
		</p>
    <p>One of the main findings of the study was the wage difference between males and females. In the higher age groups, there was a higher proportion of men (66.5% of the men reported earning more than BRL 20,000 vs. 31.2% of women), with p &lt; 0.001, even after adjusting for working hours and age group.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> According to the article, a possible factor for this wage difference is the largest proportion of men working in the private sector (14% of women vs. 23.9% of men), while the proportion of women in the public and academic sectors, which offer lower pays compared to the private sector, was higher (53% of women vs. 44% of men).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> However, other factors should be considered.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> A study conducted by Douglas et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> reported that factors such as the existence of positive female models and a female-friendly specialty influence female career choices. As such, the discrepancy between the very proportion of men and women can be a factor that deter women from engaging in cardiology, in addition to the fact that there are still few women in leadership positions.</p>
    <p>Another important aspect to be addressed, but it is not investigated in the study, is the presence of sexism in cardiology, which may be one of the factors that contribute to the lower presence of women in the specialty and their lower compensation. British studies have revealed that about 6% of the residents in the first years of specialization have experienced or witnessed sexist language, but this number rises to 15% in the last years of residence.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> In view of the above, approaches that seek to stop sexism at the workplace could lead to greater inflows of women in cardiology, encouraging them to move up their career ladder and take leadership positions, thus generating successful female models and better compensation profiles.</p>
    <p>Another relevant finding of the study was the level of stress among cardiologists: 64.2% believe they have adequate levels of stress, 24.3% do not consider themselves stressed and 11.3% report stress to a great extent, which is mostly caused by poor working conditions. These data were significantly lower than the North American data, where burnout was present in 46% of cardiologists.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> Although this information is important, structured tools for burnout research should be implemented in future questionnaires on the prevalence of this syndrome in Brazilian cardiologists. The study also found a high percentage of cardiologists who report being careless with their own health (39.4%) and who do not perform any type of physical activity (31%), which contrasts with the US data, where only 11% of cardiologists do not perform any physical activity.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
		</p>
    <p>In a modern and increasingly egalitarian world, it is of great relevance to discuss the factors that potentially lead to wage discrepancy between genders and the low inflow of women into the cardiology community. Awareness-raising activities and female healthcare and organizations and medical societies focused on reducing sexism, encouraging the participation of women in cardiology, and the education of female leaders are key to changing this scenario. The Brazilian Society of Cardiology, since it was founded 76 years ago, it has had 57 presidents, of which only two of its main representatives were women: Dr. Bettina Ferro de Souza and Dr. Glaura F. D. Martins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">Figure 1</xref>). Besides that, due to the high percentage of cardiologists who do not take good care of their own health, it is necessary to emphasize the importance of physical and mental healthcare in the medical environment and to promote improvements in working conditions.</p>
    <p>
      <fig id="f1">
        <label>Figure 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Former Presidents of SBC. Female medical leaders of cardiology in Brazil.</title>
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        <p>
          <italic>Short Editorial related to the article: The Profile of the Brazilian Cardiologist - A Sample of Members of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology</italic>
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      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Minieditorial</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Perfil dos Cardiologistas Brasileiros: Um Olhar sobre Lideran&#231;a Feminina na Cardiologia e sobre o Estresse - Desafios para a Pr&#243;xima D&#233;cada</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-7452-3870</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Mesquita</surname>
            <given-names>Evandro Tinoco</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">2</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-0454-6740</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Correia</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Thadeu de Oliveira</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-4945-7402</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Barbetta</surname>
            <given-names>Let&#237;cia Mara dos Santos</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">2</xref>
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      <aff id="aff4">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="original">Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - Diretoria de Qualidade Assistencial, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil</institution>
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      <aff id="aff5">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niter&#243;i, RJ - Brasil</institution>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff6">
        <label>3</label>
        <institution content-type="original">Hospital Pr&#243;-Card&#237;aco, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Let&#237;cia Mara dos Santos Barbetta &#8226;</bold> Hospital Universit&#225;rio Ant&#244;nio Pedro - Av. Marqu&#234;s do Paran&#225;, 303. CEP 24033-900, Niter&#243;i, RJ - Brasil E-mail: <email>leticiabarbetta@gmail.com</email>
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        <title>Palavras-chave:</title>
        <kwd>Cardiologistas</kwd>
        <kwd>Lideran&#231;a</kwd>
        <kwd>Sal&#225;rios e Benef&#237;cios</kwd>
        <kwd>Mulheres</kwd>
        <kwd>Identidade de G&#234;nero</kwd>
        <kwd>Sexismo</kwd>
        <kwd>Preconceito</kwd>
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    <body>
      <p>A cardiologia &#233; uma especialidade m&#233;dica que frequentemente exerce atividade ambulatorial e hospitalar, liderando o cuidado cardiovascular em um ambiente complexo, frente ao envelhecimento. A maior necessidade de tomadas de decis&#245;es complexas e conhecimento sobre recursos tecnol&#243;gicos pode gerar sobrecarga de atividades e mudan&#231;as do perfil do cardiologista brasileiro como, por exemplo, em sua mec&#226;nica remunerat&#243;ria, horas de lazer e n&#237;veis de estresse. Dessa forma, estudos de demografia m&#233;dica s&#227;o fundamentais para entender a din&#226;mica desses profissionais de sa&#250;de.</p>
      <p>No estudo de Faganello et al.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> os autores investigaram o perfil do cardiologista brasileiro por meio de um estudo transversal baseado no envio de question&#225;rios via e-mail para cardiologistas adimplentes da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC), em 2017. &#201; importante ressaltar que a possibilidade de cardiologistas com menores rendas serem mais inadimplentes configura um ponto capaz de promover vi&#233;s no estudo, influenciando os resultados sobre a renda dos profissionais. Al&#233;m disso, o estudo n&#227;o inclui profissionais que podem estar exercendo sua atividade profissional sem serem filiados &#224; SBC.</p>
      <p>Dos 13.462 associados adimplentes, 70,9% s&#227;o homens, dados semelhantes &#224; demografia m&#233;dica do Conselho Federal de Medicina de 2018, que identificou 15.516 m&#233;dicos com t&#237;tulo de especialista em cardiologia, sendo 70,1% do sexo masculino, revelando n&#227;o existir uma diferen&#231;a significativa entre homens e mulheres quanto a se associar &#224; SBC.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> Apesar da diferen&#231;a significativa entre a porcentagem de mulheres e homens cardiologistas, no estudo em quest&#227;o, as mulheres representaram a maior fatia das faixas et&#225;rias mais jovens, o que pode revelar um aumento do ingresso das mulheres na cardiologia nos &#250;ltimos anos.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
			</p>
      <p>Um dos principais achados do estudo foi a diferen&#231;a salarial entre os g&#234;neros feminino e masculino. Nas faixas de renda mais elevadas, foi verificada maior propor&#231;&#227;o de homens (66,5% dos homens relataram ganhar mais de 20 mil reais vs. 31,2% das mulheres), com p &lt; 0,001, mesmo ap&#243;s ajuste para horas de trabalho e faixa et&#225;ria.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> O artigo traz como um poss&#237;vel fator para essa diferen&#231;a salarial a maior propor&#231;&#227;o de homens atuando em setor privado (14% das mulheres vs. 23,9% dos homens), enquanto a propor&#231;&#227;o de mulheres no setor p&#250;blico e no meio acad&#234;mico foi maior (53% das mulheres vs. 44% dos homens), &#225;reas que possuem menores remunera&#231;&#245;es quando comparadas ao setor privado.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> No entanto, outros fatores devem ser considerados.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> Um estudo realizado por Douglas et al.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> identificou que fatores como exist&#234;ncia de modelos femininos positivos e uma especialidade amig&#225;vel &#224;s mulheres influenciam as escolhas de carreira do p&#250;blico feminino. Dessa forma, a discrep&#226;ncia entre a propor&#231;&#227;o entre homens e mulheres por si s&#243; pode se comportar como um fator de impedimento para o ingresso das mulheres na especialidade, al&#233;m de ainda haver poucas mulheres ocupando cargos de lideran&#231;a.</p>
      <p>Outro aspecto importante a ser abordado, mas n&#227;o investigado no estudo, &#233; a presen&#231;a do sexismo na cardiologia, que pode ser um dos fatores que contribuem para a menor presen&#231;a das mulheres na especialidade e menor remunera&#231;&#227;o. Estudos brit&#226;nicos revelaram que cerca de 6% dos residentes dos primeiros anos de especializa&#231;&#227;o vivenciaram ou testemunharam linguagem sexista, entretanto esse n&#250;mero aumenta para 15% nos &#250;ltimos anos da resid&#234;ncia.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref> Sendo assim, abordagens que busquem cessar o sexismo no local de trabalho poderiam acarretar maior ingresso das mulheres na cardiologia, motivando-as a ascenderem na carreira e ocupar cargos de lideran&#231;a e, dessa forma, gerar modelos femininos de sucesso e melhores perfis de remunera&#231;&#227;o.</p>
      <p>Outro relevante achado do estudo foi em rela&#231;&#227;o ao n&#237;vel de estresse entre os cardiologistas: 64,2% consideram apresentar n&#237;veis adequados de estresse, 24,3% n&#227;o se consideram estressados e 11,3% relatam estresse em grande propor&#231;&#227;o, sendo a principal causa as m&#225;s condi&#231;&#245;es de trabalho. Esses dados foram significativamente menores do que dados norte-americanos, onde o <italic>burnout</italic> esteve presente em 46% dos cardiologistas.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> Apesar dessas informa&#231;&#245;es serem importantes, ferramentas estruturadas para pesquisa de <italic>burnout</italic> devem ser implementadas em futuros question&#225;rios para conhecimento da preval&#234;ncia dessa s&#237;ndrome nos cardiologistas brasileiros. O estudo ainda encontrou uma elevada porcentagem de cardiologistas que se consideram descuidados com a sa&#250;de (39,4%) e que n&#227;o realizam nenhum tipo de atividade f&#237;sica (31%), achados que contrastam com dados dos EUA, onde somente 11% dos cardiologistas n&#227;o realizam atividade f&#237;sica.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>
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      <p>Em um mundo moderno e cada vez mais igualit&#225;rio, &#233; de grande relev&#226;ncia que se discutam os poss&#237;veis fatores que levam &#224; discrep&#226;ncia salarial entre os g&#234;neros e &#224; baixa ades&#227;o das mulheres na cardiologia. A&#231;&#245;es de conscientiza&#231;&#227;o e organiza&#231;&#245;es de sa&#250;de e sociedades m&#233;dicas que atuem reduzindo o sexismo, encorajando a participa&#231;&#227;o de mulheres na cardiologia e a forma&#231;&#227;o de lideran&#231;as femininas s&#227;o fundamentais para alterar esse cen&#225;rio. A Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia com 76 anos de funda&#231;&#227;o tendo possu&#237;do 57 presidentes ao longo de sua hist&#243;ria, apenas em duas ocasi&#245;es, teve mulheres como principal representante - Dra. Bettina Ferro de Souza e a Dra. Glaura F. D. Martins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">Figura 1</xref>). Ao lado disso, devido &#224; elevada porcentagem de cardiologistas sem adequado cuidado com sua pr&#243;pria sa&#250;de surge a necessidade de se ressaltar a import&#226;ncia do cuidado com a sa&#250;de f&#237;sica e mental (preven&#231;&#227;o do <italic>burnout</italic> e suic&#237;dio em m&#233;dicos) no meio m&#233;dico e de promo&#231;&#227;o de melhorias das condi&#231;&#245;es de trabalho.</p>
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          <label>Figura 1</label>
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            <title>Ex-presidentes da SBC. Lideran&#231;as m&#233;dicas femininas da cardiologia do Brasil.</title>
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            <italic>Minieditorial referente ao artigo: O Perfil do Cardiologista Brasileiro - Uma Amostra de S&#243;cios da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</italic>
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