The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance will get $840,000 for research aimed at improving cardiovascular health of Canadian women.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, but their cardiovascular symptoms are still not always recognized and women’s heart attacks continue to get missed.“We hear the story far too often about women who have been turned away from the emergency department, about doubt by the woman herself about her symptoms, and sometimes doubt among health-care providers,” says Dr. Kerri-Anne Mullen, director of the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
Institute of Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Women and Gender Equality Canada .Article content “We have heard far too many stories of delayed diagnoses and women feeling that they are being treated differently than men,” Mullen says. The initiative comes at a time when there is an alarming trend in women’s heart health — an increase in deaths due to heart attacks in young women — which makes increased research, education and training more urgent than ever.
But, when she suffered a spontaneous coronary artery dissection , she suspected it was angina and it took her a few days to get to a hospital.
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