Women have a smaller heart than men and have different treatment outcomes.
More women than men get a type of heart failure that is less understood, less detected and has no cure yet.
Her research in the last decade has found that male and female patients respond differently to medical and device therapies for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation, and they have different treatment outcomes. While there are similarities in how men and women respond to heart failure therapies, “the differences lie in treatment benefits, response to dosages, tolerability to medical therapy, device therapy and cardiac rehabilitation”, she noted.
“Why then are we still continuing to use the same yardstick, which is always right for the man but not for the woman. That is the main reason for things being haywire,” she said. “One of the things that meant so much to me is the most recent New American Heart Association scientific statement and research on heart disease in women that was published in Circulation journal. It has finally set specific guidance for heart failure,” she added.
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