Cardiac gender bias: we need less TALK and more WALK

Posted on March 23, 2014 by hibernationnow.wordpress.com

Really important, please read and pass along. Thanks.

by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters

News flash! Yet another new cardiac study from yet another group of respected researchers has been published in yet another medical journal suggesting that(…wait for it!) women receive poorer care during a heart attack compared to our male counterparts.(1)

As my irreverent Mayo Clinic heart sister and heart attack survivor Laura Haywood-Cory from North Carolina once observed in response to a 2011 Heart Sisterspost:

“We really don’t need yet another study that basically comes down to: ‘Sucks to be female. Better luck next life!’, do we?”

Well, Laura – apparently we do. Because those studies just keep on coming.

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4 thoughts on “Cardiac gender bias: we need less TALK and more WALK”

Carolyn Thomas on March 23, 2014 at 6:22 pm said:

Thanks for picking up my ‘cardiac gender bias’ post here from Heart Sisters! 🙂

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- hibernationnow.wordpress.com on March 23, 2014 at 6:31 pm said:
  
  aww shucks, that’s what heart sisters are for. spread the love.
  
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CuriositytotheMax on March 23, 2014 at 5:16 pm said:

We just got the vote – no surprise that everything that was once dominated (medical) by men is lagging behind.

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mo on March 23, 2014 at 5:12 pm said:

Thanks for the good info.

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