Gender bias in medicine still putting women's health at risk
As author Maya Dusenbery made clear in her book Doing Harm, these conditions are under-researched and often go undiagnosed and untreated. Different sex, different symptoms Heart disease is another example where sex — or perhaps sexism — stills plays a huge determining factor. Women are less likely to experience the “classic” symptoms of a heart attack — symptoms that were discovered in research led by men, in which most of the participants were men. Women are less likely to experience the “classic” symptoms of a heart attack. Women’s most common heart attack symptom, as w...