The Heart Acts Differently in Men, Women
Posted on: Thursday, 11 January 2007, 15:00 CST
Men and women develop, have symptoms of, are diagnosed with and are treated for heart disease very differently, says a Canadian study.
The GENESIS project is a multidisciplinary project that is bringing together researchers from across Canada to examine how sex and gender play a role in heart disease.
The researchers have found:
-- Teenaged boys develop higher blood pressure than teenage girls -- something that may be due to puberty or could be tied to the higher blood pressure seen in adult men. Women don't catch up until after menopause, when their blood pressure tends to increase.
-- Women do not tend to experience the chest-crushing pain traditionally associated with heart attacks that men do. Women tend to experience fatigue and nausea instead.
-- Angiograms, the tool used to diagnose heart problems when patients show up in hospitals with chest pains, tend to deliver a normal verdict for many women.
Source: United Press International
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