| ||Woman to Woman || | Gender Differences In Cardiac Care Last
reviewed by Faculty of Harvard Medical School on January 14,
2013 By Alice Y. Chang, M.D. Brigham and Women's Hospital Did
you know that women are more likely to die after a heart attack
than men are? Did you know that women also get fewer procedures
than men to prevent recurrent heart attacks? Are these
differences justified? In some cases, studies of women and heart
disease have shown that they do have different risk factors than
men and should be treated differently. In other cases, however,
there are differences in care that have no justification and can
only be explained by inappropriate gender discrimination.
Recognize that heart disease, NOT breast cancer is the leading
killer of women in the United States. It is, therefore,
important that you take steps to protect yourself against bias
in medicine by being armed with information and the right
questions to ask. Back to top How Women Are Truly Different It
is important to recognize how wome