A new report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation says Canadian women are B次元官网网址渦nnecessarily suffering and dying from heart diseaseB次元官网网址� because of a system that is ill-equipped to diagnose, treat and support them.
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The report says a woman dies of heart disease in Canada every 20 minutes and are five times more likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer yet two-thirds of heart disease clinical research still focuses on men.
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The foundation said women are more likely than men to die or have a second heart attack within the first six months of a cardiac event and women are less likely to get bypass surgery and stents to restore blood flow.
Savoie said there is a need to B次元官网网址渆ducate and equip health care systems and providers to think about, investigate and treat womenB次元官网网址檚 heart disease differently than they do menB次元官网网址檚.B次元官网网址�
On the positive side, Savoie said more organizations that fund research are requiring sex and gender to be considered in research proposals and that Canadian researchers are at the forefront of new studies into heart conditions that predominantly affect women.
B次元官网网址淧rogress has been made recently, but not nearly fast enough to equitably protect womenB次元官网网址檚 hearts,B次元官网网址� said Savoie.
B次元官网网址淭he challenge is to accelerate the pace of change, to gather new knowledge and translate it into better and safer heart healthcare for women.B次元官网网址�
The Canadian Press
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