Women's Heart Disease

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Elin is a heart specialist, and it was only at this point that she got called in. She clearly had abnormal e k g and elevation of ensins. And it was recognized that she was having an acute event. Nfortunately, by that time, she had lost a lot of function in the wall of her heart. Because of the delaynt diagnosis, she enddat, meaning a heart transplant.

Until 1993, many researchers excluded women from clinical drug trials, leaving doctors in the dark about how new treatments work in more than half the population. This is the story of why that happened, the women who fought to change it, and what we still don’t know about how sex and gender affect health.

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