Gender Disparities and Heart Disease

This Ted talk from 2013 had significant impact on women's health research. She said,

“Women’s health is an equal rights issue as important as equal pay.”

"For example, in men, heart disease typically manifests as a blockage, but in women, plaque tends to be distributed more evenly in arteries. The two diseases, though similar, requires different kinds of test to diagnose — but this was not widely known. Many women with heart disease, as a result, simply didn’t get diagnosed or treated at all. "