‘It was my heart’: Women with heart disease face barriers to care in Canada, report says
Five years later, there have been some advances in research, care and education, but many issues still need to be addressed, according to the latest findings.
Two-thirds of participants in clinical trials on heart disease and stroke are men. When women are included, researchers don’t always analyze the data by sex and gender, the report found.As a result, approaches to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care often do not always apply to women. It was 2013 and she had just given birth to her second child and was a conditioned runner. Yet, every time she tried to go for a run, she felt extreme fatigue and was short of breath. She experienced flu-like symptoms after her workouts and felt pressure in her chest.But when she went to see a doctor, she was told everything was normal and that it was probably just stress.
Initial tests seemed to indicate low oxygen to the heart, but nothing urgent was found, so she was sent home from the emergency department with only some tips on stress management and a muscle relaxer. “And that’s when things got really scary for me, just not being believed when I knew for a fact it was my heart.”Bobbi-Jo Green was 30 when she first experienced her first heart event. It took her almost a decade to get a diagnosis of heart disease after years of doctors who didn’t believe her and tests that didn’t detect her disease.Some physicians suggested it was all in her head — a form of medical gaslighting that Green describes as deeply frustrating.
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