Kirked posted an interesting case about the assessment of chest pain in women (see link). Coincidentally my medical indemnity society had a similar case report in the most recent issue of their journal and an I saw a headline from a study showing that strokes in women with AF cause more death and disability. This reminded me of the fact that the burden of cardiac disease between the sexes is not even (I won't get into the debate about whether anything else is either - as a female I have very firm views on the latter!) and research and treatment is often heavily targetted towards men. Is this because women don't seek help or because women present in atypical ways and then get labelled as something else? I think it is a combination of the two. What would be the intervention that would get rid of this inequality?
sadian

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