Tag: gender disparities
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Closing the gender gap in heart disease care: diagnosis and treatment in STEMI
Overview: the persistent gender gap in heart disease care Despite decades of awareness and targeted initiatives, women with heart disease continue to face under-recognition, under-diagnosis and under-treatment. Since Bernadine Healy’s 1991 critique of sex bias in coronary disease management, efforts have aimed at leveling care for women. Yet, 34 years later, sex-based differences in management…
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Women’s Heart Attack Care Improving but Gap Remains
What the study found A large Australian study has found that care for women experiencing a heart attack is improving, but not quickly enough to close the gap with men. An analysis of hospital records from New South Wales (NSW) spanning 2011 to 2020 included 29,435 adults who suffered a STEMI (a severe, complete artery…