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Cardiovascular Disease
Doctors underestimate women's heart risk
February 24th, 2005
Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men. Women are less likely than men to receive recommendations from their doctors for preventive therapies such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, aspirin therapy and cardiac rehabilitation to protect them against heart attacks and death, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The treatment gap is the result of doctors' misperception that a woman's risk is lower, even when her actual risk is calculated to be the same as a man, according to the study presented at The State of The Heart: Go Red For Women news...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-24)
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