Tag: women’s heart health
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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…