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The Facts About Heart Disease
Heart disease's sexism
- Many symptoms of heart disease are ignored, unrecognized or misdiagnosed because women's symptoms are completely different than men's.
- Women under the age of 75 are twice as likely as men to die from heart disease because female and male doctors often misdiagnose the symptoms.
- Women have heart attacks five to 10 years later than men because women's estrogen levels decrease over time. As women become menopausal, they lose some of their protection against heart disease.
- Women's hearts are physically different than men's. If you look at the arteries that provide blood flow to the heart muscle, men's are like rigid pipes, while women's are soft. Only 30 percent of women who have heart attacks have calcium in their arteries, whereas 90 percent of men who have heart attacks have calcium in theirs. Therefore, heart disease is a fundamentally different disease for women than it is for men.
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