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From the category archives:
Gender Differences
There are a number of studies which have attempted to correlate days of the week with the risk of a heart attack. Monday is consistently correlated with a higher incidence of a heart attack, though some of the research suggests that this primarily applies to working men. Interesting, (Japanese) women seem to be more at [...]
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Yesterday’s post suggested that one of the problems with the cardiology experience is that it is overwhelmingly a male dominated field. Research suggests that female doctors “tend to be more encouraging and reassuring, use shared decision-making, ask more psychosocial questions and spend more time — up to 10 percent more — with patients than male [...]
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One of the major factors that influences the profession (and experience) of cardiology is that cardiologists are predominately male. Over-stating the stereotype, women are usually more concerned about relationship than men: my experience of cardiologists is that they emphasize facts over feelings, authority over collaboration. Although I have not found any direct research about [...]
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The Blog Entry at www.myheartsisters.org from April 5, 2010: Every hour you spend watching television each day increases your risk of dying from heart disease by almost a fifth, say scientists in Australia. The findings were reported last month in Circulation, the Journal of the American Heart Association. Prof. David Dunstan, the study’s lead researcher [...]
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1970: Women’s experience and tolerance of cardiac surgery began to appear in medical literature [1] 1980: Increased focus on various health issues concerning women (abuse, breast cancer, menopause, cardiovascular health)[2] 1995: A chapter on cardiovascular disease in women was written for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada[3] 1997: The American Heart Association presented a [...]
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Men who have sex at least twice a week can almost halve their risk of heart disease, according to new research. It shows men who indulge in regular lovemaking are up to 45 per cent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions than men who have sex once a month or less. The study, of [...]
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A new US study found women’s knowledge of the warning signs of a heart attack is as poor as it was a decade ago, with half saying they would not call 9-1-1 if they were having heart attack symptoms; they also found that although getting narrower, there are still racial gaps in women’s awareness of [...]
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