Gender Disparities and Heart Disease
Research Question: What is the impact of gender disparities among diagnosis and treatment for heart disease patients?
Scholarly Articles
Gender Differences Heart Disease.pdfCardiovascular.pdfGlobal Gender Disparities.pdfcardiac stress.pdfLyubarova2021_Article_EliminatingGenderDisparitiesIn.pdfheq.2018.0073.pdfNewspaper Articles
Videos
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. "
Websites
Harvard Health Publishing
Using data from a nationwide survey that represents 11 million women with heart and blood vessel diseases, Johns Hopkins Medicine finds gender disparities
