A new report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is highlighting 'significant inequities' in women's health care that is disproportionately affecting racialized and Indigenous women, members of the LGBTQ2S+ community and those living with low socioeconomic status.
A new report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is highlighting 'significant inequities' in women's heart and brain health care that is disproportionately affecting racialized and Indigenous women, members of the LGBTQ2S+ community and those living with low socioeconomic status, among others., says gaps in research and care – compounded by a lack of awareness of the distinct heart disease and stroke risk factors women face -- are putting lives at risk.
BIPOC women often have predisposed risks for cardiovascular disease, but Canadian guidelines to understanding these risks are not based on ethnicities, the report says., in collaboration with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, researchers found that out of 1,000 pregnant women in Ontario, gestational diabetes is twice as common in South Asian women than it is in white women of European decent.
"Being a woman is one thing, that's already a risk factor for not receiving the right treatment but that's without even counting all the other stuff that can affect our patients," Bastiany told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview on Jan. 20.According to the report, nearly 40 per cent of people in Canada do not realize that heart disease and stroke are the leading cause of premature death in women.
"There's so much space to make the training better and I don't think that online modules are enough. I think that there needs to be hands-on, real life experience that we need to have at the start of training because that creates a better physician," she said.The report also included various testimonies of women who either weren't able to recognize the symptoms of heart disease in themselves or were dismissed by their health-care provider.
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